Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
This
is
the word that came
to
Jeremiah from the
LORD:
The word that hath
been
unto
Jeremiah from Jehovah,
saying,
“Go
down at
once
to the potter’s
house, and there I will
reveal
My
message
to you.”
Rise,
and
thou
hast
gone
down `
to '
the potter's
house, and there I cause
thee
to hear
My
words;
So
I went
down to the potter’s
house and saw
him
working
at
the wheel.
and
I go
down `
to '
the potter's
house ,
and lo,
he
is
doing
a
work
on
the stones,
But
the vessel that he was
shaping
from
the
clay became
flawed
in his
hand ;
so
he formed
it into
another vessel, as it seemed
best
for
him
to do
.
and
marred
is
the vessel that he is
making,
as
clay in the
hand of
the
potter,
and
he hath
turned
and
he
maketh
it another vessel, as it was
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
potter
to make
.
Then
the
word of the
LORD
came
to me, saying ,
And
there
is
a
word of Jehovah
to me, saying :
“
O house of Israel, declares
the
LORD
, can
I
not
treat
you
as this
potter
treats
his
clay ?
Just
like
clay
in the potter’s
hand, so are you
in My hand, O house of Israel.
As
this
potter
am
I
not
able
to
do
to
you?
O house of Israel, an
affirmation
of
Jehovah.
Lo
, as clay in the hand of
the
potter
, So `
are '
ye
in My hand, O house of Israel.
At
any
time
I might
announce
that
a nation or
kingdom will
be
uprooted
, torn
down, and destroyed.
The
moment
I speak
concerning
a nation ,
And
concerning
a
kingdom, To
pluck
up
and
to
break
down, and to
destroy,
But
if
that nation I
warned
turns
from its evil, then I will
relent
of the disaster
I had
planned
to bring
.
And
that nation hath
turned
from its evil, Because
I
have
spoken
against
it,
Then I have
repented
of the evil
that
I thought
to do
to
it
.
And if
at
another
time
I
announce
that
I will
build
up
and
establish
a nation or
kingdom,
And the
moment
I speak
concerning
a nation ,
And
concerning
a
kingdom, to
build,
and
to
plant,
and if
it does
evil in My
sight
and
does
not listen
to My voice, then I will
relent
of the good I had
intended
for
it.
And it hath
done
the
evil thing
in Mine
eyes,
So
as
not to hearken
to
My voice, Then I have
repented
of the good That
I have
spoken
of
doing
to
it.
Now therefore
, tell
the
men of Judah and the
residents
of Jerusalem that
this
is
what
the
LORD
says
: ‘Behold
, I am planning
a
disaster
for
you and devising a
plan
against you .
Turn now
, each
of
you, from your
evil ways,
and correct
your ways and deeds
. ’
And
now, speak,
I
pray
thee,
unto
men of Judah ,
And against
inhabitants
of Jerusalem ,
Saying
: Thus
said
Jehovah:
Lo
, I am framing
against
you evil,
And devising against you a
device,
Turn back
, I
pray
you, each
from his
evil way
And amen
your ways and your
doings
.
But
they will
reply
, ‘
It is hopeless.
We
will
follow
our own plans
, and each of
us
will
act
according
to
the stubbornness of his evil heart. ’”
And
they have
said
, It is incurable,
For
after
our own devices
we
do
go
, And each the stubbornness of his evil heart we
do
.
Therefore this
is
what
the
LORD
says
: “Inquire
among the nations :
Who has
ever
heard things
like these? Virgin Israel has
done a
most
terrible
thing
.
Therefore ,
thus
said
Jehovah
: Ask,
I
pray
you,
among the nations ,
Who hath
heard like these? A
very
horrible
thing
hath
the
virgin of
Israel done.
Does
the
snow of Lebanon ever
leave
its
rocky
slopes
? Or
do
its
cool
waters flowing
from
a
distance
ever
run
dry
?
Doth
snow of Lebanon Cease
from
the
rock
of
the
field
? Failed
are
the
cold
strange
waters that
flow
?
Yet
My people have forgotten Me .
They
burn
incense
to worthless
idols
that
make them stumble in their ways, leaving
the
ancient
roads
to walk on
rutted
bypaths
instead
of
on
the
highway.
But
My people have forgotten Me ,
to a
vain
thing
they
make perfume,
And
they
cause
them to
stumble in their ways --
paths
of
old
, To walk in
paths
--
a
way
not
raised
up,
They
have
made
their land a desolation, a perpetual
object
of
scorn;
all
who
pass
by will
be
appalled
and shake
their
heads
.
To
make
their land become
a desolation, A hissing
age-during,
Every
passer
by it
is
astonished,
And bemoaneth
with
his
head
.
I will
scatter them before the
enemy like
the east
wind.
I
will
show
them
My
back
and not My
face in the day of their calamity. ”
As
an
east
wind
I scatter them before an
enemy ,
The neck,
and not the
face ,
I
shew
them,
In the day of their calamity. '
Then
some
said
, “
Come, let
us
make
plans
against Jeremiah, for the
law will
never
be
lost
to
the priest, nor counsel to
the wise, nor an
oracle
to
the prophet .
Come, let
us
denounce
him and pay
no
heed
to any of his words. ”
And
they
say
, Come, And
we
devise
against Jeremiah devices
, For law doth
not
perish
from
the priest, Nor counsel from
the wise, Nor the word
from
the
prophet ,
Come, and
we
smite
him with
the
tongue,
And we
do
not
attend
to any of his words.
Attend
to
me
, O LORD
. Hear
what
my
accusers
are
saying!
Give
attention
, O Jehovah,
unto
me,
And
hearken
to
the
voice
of
those
contending
with
me
.
Should
good
be
repaid
with
evil ?
Yet
they have dug a pit for me.
Remember how
I
stood
before You
to speak good on
their
behalf
, to turn Your
wrath from them.
Is
evil recompensed
instead
of
good,
That
they have dug a pit for my
soul?
Remember my
standing
before Thee
to speak good of
them
, To turn back
Thy
wrath from them.
Therefore, hand
their children
over
to famine ;
pour
out
the power
of the sword upon
them.
Let
their wives become
childless
and widowed;
let
their husbands
be
slain by disease
, their young men struck
down
by the
sword in battle .
Therefore, give
up
their sons
to famine ,
And
cause
them
to
run
on
the sides
of the sword ,
And
their wives are
bereaved
and widows,
And
their men
are
slain by death
, Their young men smitten
by sword in battle ,
Let
a cry be
heard from their houses when
You
suddenly
bring
raiders
against them, for they have
dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares
for my feet.
A cry is
heard from their houses ,
For
Thou
bringest
against them suddenly
a
troop
, For they dug a pit to capture me ,
And snares
they
have hidden for my feet.
But
You
, O LORD
, know
all their deadly
plots
against me .
Do
not wipe
out
their guilt
or
blot
out
their sin from Your
sight.
Let
them
be
overthrown
before You;
deal
with
them
in the time of Your
anger .
And
Thou
, O Jehovah
, Thou
hast
known,
All their counsel
against me `is'
for
death,
Thou
dost
not cover
over
their iniquity,
Nor
their sin from before Thee
blottest
out,
And
they
are
made
to
stumble
before
Thee,
In the time of Thine
anger work
against
them!
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