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'Look, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.' <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it; <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will change my mind about the disaster that I thought to do to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says the LORD: Look, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return now everyone from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.' <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But they say, 'It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.'"<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore thus says the LORD: "Ask now among the nations, who has heard such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? Shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false gods; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity."<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then they said, "Come, and let us make plans against Jeremiah; 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 not give heed to any of his words."<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>"Give heed to me, LORD, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men struck of the sword in battle.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; do not forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger."<p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><a href="//nheb.net/">New Heart English Bible</a><br />Edited by Wayne A. 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