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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Jeremiah 18 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/18.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/18-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</a> > Jeremiah 18</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/17.htm" title="Jeremiah 17">◄</a> Jeremiah 18 <a href="../jeremiah/19.htm" title="Jeremiah 19">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/jeremiah/18.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Potter’s House and the Ruined Vessel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The message that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Arise and go down to the potter’s house, and there I’ll allow you to hear my words.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was doing work at the potter’s wheel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But the vessel he was working on with the clay was ruined in the potter’s hand. So he remade it into another vessel that seemed appropriate to him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then this message from the LORD came to me: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Israel, can’t I deal with you like this potter?” declares the LORD. “Look, Israel, like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>At one moment I may speak about a nation or a kingdom to uproot it, pull it down, or destroy it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But if that nation about which I spoke turns from its evil way, I’ll change my mind about the disaster that I had planned for it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>At another moment I may speak about a nation or kingdom to build it or plant it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But if that nation does evil in my eyes by not obeying me, I’ll change my mind about the good that I said I would bring on it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Now say to the people of Judah and to the residents of Jerusalem, ‘This is what the LORD says: “Look, I’m designing a disaster just for you, and I’m making plans against you. Each one of you must repent from his evil way. Make your ways and deeds right.”’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But they’ll say, ‘It’s useless! We will follow our plans and each of us will pursue his own evil desires.’<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="18:12 Lit. will do the stubbornness of his evil heart">a</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Therefore, this is what the LORD says:</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop">‘Ask the nations.</p> <p class="poetry2">Who has ever heard of anything like this?</p> <p class="poetry2">You have done a most horrible thing,</p> <p class="poetry2">virgin Israel.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Does the snow of Lebanon</p> <p class="poetry2">ever vanish from its rocky slopes?<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="18:14 Or Do rocks ever leave the slopes, or the snow from Lebanon?">b</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">Or does the cold water from a foreign land</p> <p class="poetry2">ever cease to flow?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Yet my people have forgotten me,</p> <p class="poetry2">and they burn incense to worthless idols</p> <p class="poetry2">that make them stumble in their journey</p> <p class="poetry2">on the ancient paths.</p> <p class="poetry2">They walk on trails,</p> <p class="poetry2">on a way that is not built up.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>They make their land into a desolate place,</p> <p class="poetry2">an object of lasting scorn.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="18:16 Lit. hissing">c</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">All who pass by will be appalled</p> <p class="poetry2">and will shake their heads.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="18:16 i.e. in surprise at the magnitude of the destruction">d</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>‘Like the east wind, I’ll scatter them</p> <p class="poetry2">before the enemy.</p> <p class="poetry2">I’ll show them my back and not my face,</p> <p class="poetry2">on the day of their downfall.’”</p> <p class="heading">Jeremiah Reacts to the Plot against Him</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then they said, “Come, let’s make up a plot against Jeremiah. After all, the priest’s instruction, the wise man’s counsel, and the prophet’s message won’t be destroyed.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="18:18 Lit. perish">e</a></span> So let’s verbally attack him. Pay no attention to anything he says!”</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>LORD, pay attention to me.</p> <p class="poetry2">Listen to the voice of my accusers!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Should good be repaid with evil?</p> <p class="poetry2">Yet they have dug a pit to take my life.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="18:20 Or a pit for me">f</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">Remember! I stood before you</p> <p class="poetry2">and spoke good on their behalf</p> <p class="poetry2">in order to turn your wrath away from them.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Therefore, make their children undergo famine,</p> <p class="poetry2">and deliver them over to death in time of war.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="18:21 Lit. to the power of the sword.">g</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">May their women be childless widows!</p> <p class="poetry2">May their men be slaughtered!<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="18:21 Lit. killed dead">h</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">May their young men be slain</p> <p class="poetry2">by the sword in battle!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Let a cry be heard from their houses because you</p> <p class="poetry2">have brought a raiding party against them suddenly.</p> <p class="poetry2">For they have dug a pit to capture me</p> <p class="poetry2">and have set<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="18:22 Or hidden">i</a></span> traps for my feet.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But you, LORD, know all their plots to kill me.</p> <p class="poetry2">Don’t forgive their iniquity,</p> <p class="poetry2">and don’t erase their sin from your sight.</p> <p class="poetry2">Let them stumble before you.</p> <p class="poetry2">When it’s time for you to be angry, act against them!</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 18:12 Lit. <i>will do the stubbornness of his evil heart</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 18:14 Or <i>Do rocks ever leave the slopes, or the snow from Lebanon?</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 18:16 Lit. <i>hissing</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 18:16 i.e. in surprise at the magnitude of the destruction<br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 18:18 Lit. <i>perish</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 18:20 Or <i>a pit for me</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 18:21 Lit. <i>to the power of the sword.</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 18:21 Lit. <i>killed dead</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 18:22 Or <i>hidden</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<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></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/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 width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 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