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behold as clay is in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>If that nation against which I have spoken, shall repent of their evil, I also will repent of the evil that I have thought to do to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And I will suddenly speak of a nation and of a kingdom, to build up and plant it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>If it shall do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice: I will repent of the good that I have spoken to do unto it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Now therefore tell the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: let every man of you return from his evil way, and make ye your ways and your doings good. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And they said: We have no hopes: for we will go after our own thoughts, and we will do every one according to the perverseness of his evil heart. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ask among the nations: Who hath heard such horrible things, as the virgin of Israel hath done to excess? </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Shall now the snow of Libanus fail from the rock of the field? or can the cold waters that gush out and run down, be taken away? </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Because my people have forgotten me, sacrificing in vain, and stumbling in their ways, in ancient paths, to walk by them in a way not trodden: </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>That their land might be given up to desolation, and to a perpetual hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and wag his head. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>As a burning will I scatter them before the enemy: I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their destruction. </p> <a name="18" id="18"></a><p class="hdg">The Plot against Jeremiah<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../psalms/70.htm">Psalm 70:1-5</a>; <a href="../psalms/141.htm">Psalm 141:1-10</a>; <a href="../jeremiah/11.htm#18">Jeremiah 11:18-23</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremias: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, so speak good for them, and turn away thy indignation from them. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Therefore deliver up their children to famine, and bring them into the hands of the sword: let their wives be bereaved of children and widows: and let their husbands be slain by death: let their young men be stabbed with the sword in battle. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Let a cry be heard out of their houses: for thou shalt bring the robber upon them suddenly: because they have digged a pit to take me, and have hid snares for my feet. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But thou, O Lord, knowest all their counsel against me unto death: forgive not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from thy sight: let them be overthrown before thy eyes, in the time of thy wrath do thou destroy them. </p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Douay-Rheims Bible<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../jeremiah/17.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 17"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 17" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../jeremiah/19.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 19"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 19" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/jeremiah/18-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>