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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 ESV</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="../">ESV</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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/jeremiah/18.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Potter and the Clay</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The word that came to Jeremiah from the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>: <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 will let you hear<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or will cause you to hear">a</a></sup></span> 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 working at his wheel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to me: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it, <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, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: ‘Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds.’</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“But they say, ‘That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Therefore thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>:</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Ask among the nations,</span><br /><span class="indent">Who has heard the like of this?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">The virgin Israel</span><br /><span class="indent">has done a very horrible thing.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Does the snow of Lebanon leave</span><br /><span class="indent">the crags of Sirion?<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew of the field">b</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="ln-group">Do the mountain waters run dry,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew Are foreign waters plucked up">c</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">the cold flowing streams?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But my people have forgotten me;</span><br /><span class="indent">they make offerings to false gods;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">they made them stumble in their ways,</span><br /><span class="indent">in the ancient roads,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and to walk into side roads,</span><br /><span class="indent">not the highway,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">making their land a horror,</span><br /><span class="indent">a thing to be hissed at forever.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Everyone who passes by it is horrified</span><br /><span class="indent">and shakes his head.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Like the east wind I will scatter them</span><br /><span class="indent">before the enemy.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I will show them my back, not my face,</span><br /><span class="indent">in the day of their calamity.”</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Hear me, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent">and listen to the voice of my adversaries.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Should good be repaid with evil?</span><br /><span class="indent">Yet they have dug a pit for my life.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Remember how I stood before you</span><br /><span class="indent">to speak good for them,</span><br /><span class="indent">to turn away your wrath from them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Therefore deliver up their children to famine;</span><br /><span class="indent">give them over to the power of the sword;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">let their wives become childless and widowed.</span><br /><span class="indent">May their men meet death by pestilence,</span><br /><span class="indent">their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">May a cry be heard from their houses,</span><br /><span class="indent">when you bring the plunderer suddenly upon them!</span><br /><span class="ln-group">For they have dug a pit to take me</span><br /><span class="indent">and laid snares for my feet.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Yet you, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, know</span><br /><span class="indent">all their plotting to kill me.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Forgive not their iniquity,</span><br /><span class="indent">nor blot out their sin from your sight.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Let them be overthrown before you;</span><br /><span class="indent">deal with them in the time of your anger.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Or <i>will cause you to hear</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">of</span> the field</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> Hebrew <i>Are foreign waters plucked up</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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