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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" /><title>Jeremiah 18 NIV</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="../">NIV</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">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/jeremiah/18.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">At the Potter’s House</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the <span class="name">Lord</span>: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” <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 I saw him working at the wheel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then the word of the <span class="name">Lord</span> came to me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the <span class="name">Lord</span>. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, ‘This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> says: Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But they will reply, ‘It’s no use. We will continue with our own plans; we will all follow the stubbornness of our evil hearts.’ ”</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 <span class="name">Lord</span> says:</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“Inquire among the nations:</p><p class="line2">Who has ever heard anything like this?</p><p class="line1">A most horrible thing has been done</p><p class="line2">by Virgin Israel.</p> <p class="line1"><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="line2">ever vanish from its rocky slopes?</p><p class="line1">Do its cool waters from distant sources</p><p class="line2">ever stop flowing? <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.">a</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="line1"><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="line2">they burn incense to worthless idols,</p><p class="line1">which made them stumble in their ways,</p><p class="line2">in the ancient paths.</p><p class="line1">They made them walk in byways,</p><p class="line2">on roads not built up.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Their land will be an object of horror</p><p class="line2">and of lasting scorn;</p><p class="line1">all who pass by will be appalled</p><p class="line2">and will shake their heads.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Like a wind from the east,</p><p class="line2">I will scatter them before their enemies;</p><p class="line1">I will show them my back and not my face</p><p class="line2">in the day of their disaster.”</p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They said, “Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah; for the teaching of the law by the priest will not cease, nor will counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets. So come, let’s attack him with our tongues and pay no attention to anything he says.”</p> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Listen to me, <span class="name">Lord</span>;</p><p class="line2">hear what my accusers are saying!</p> <p class="line1"><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="line2">Yet they have dug a pit for me.</p><p class="line1">Remember that I stood before you</p><p class="line2">and spoke in their behalf</p><p class="line2">to turn your wrath away from them.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So give their children over to famine;</p><p class="line2">hand them over to the power of the sword.</p><p class="line1">Let their wives be made childless and widows;</p><p class="line2">let their men be put to death,</p><p class="line2">their young men slain by the sword in battle.</p> <p class="line1"><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</p><p class="line2">when you suddenly bring invaders against them,</p><p class="line1">for they have dug a pit to capture me</p><p class="line2">and have hidden snares for my feet.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But you, <span class="name">Lord</span>, know</p><p class="line2">all their plots to kill me.</p><p class="line1">Do not forgive their crimes</p><p class="line2">or blot out their sins from your sight.</p><p class="line1">Let them be overthrown before you;</p><p class="line2">deal with them in the time of your anger.</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotebot">The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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