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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 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</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> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../">Brenton</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/18-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Potter and the Clay<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The word that came from the Lord to <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Jeremias, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there thou shalt hear my words. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So I went down to the potter's house, and behold, he was making a vessel on the stones. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And the vessel which he was making with his hands fell: so he made it again another vessel, as it seemed good to him to make <i>it</i>.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Shall I not be able, O house of Israel, to do to you as this potter? behold, as the clay of the potter are ye in my hands. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><i>If</i> I shall pronounce a decree upon a nation, or upon a kingdom, to cut them off, and to destroy <i>them</i>; <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and that nation turn from all their sins, then will I repent of the evils which I purposed to do to them. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And <i>if</i> I shall pronounce a decree upon a nation and kingdom, to rebuild and to plant <i>it</i>; <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and they do evil before me, so as not to hearken to my voice, then will I repent of the good which I spoke of, to do it to them. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And now say to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Behold, I prepare evils against you, and devise a device against you: let every one turn now from his evil way, and amend your practices. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And they said, We will quit ourselves like men, for we will pursue our perverse ways, and we will perform each the lusts of his evil heart.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore thus saith the Lord; Enquire now among the nations, who has heard such very horrible things as the virgin of Israel has done?<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Will fertilising streams fail <i>to flow</i> from a rock, or snow <i>fail</i> from Libanus? will water violently impelled by the wind turn aside?<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For my people have forgotten me, they have offered incense in vain, and they fail in their ways, <i>leaving</i> the ancient tracks, to enter upon impassable paths;<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>to make their land a desolation, and a perpetual hissing; all that go through it shall be amazed, and shall shake their heads.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I will scatter them before their enemies like an east wind; I will shew them the day of their destruction.<p> <A name="19"></a><p class="hdg">Another Plot against Jeremiah<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then they said, Come, and let us devise a device 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 smite him with the tongue, and wee will hear all his words.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Hear me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my pleading.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Forasmuch as evil is rewarded for good; for they have spoken words against my soul, and they have hidden the punishment they <i>meant</i> for me; remember that I stood before thy face, to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Therefore do thou deliver their sons to famine, and gather them to the power of the sword: let their women be childless and widows; and let their men be cut off by death, and their young men fall by the sword in war.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Let there be a cry in their houses: thou shalt bring upon them robbers suddenly: for they have formed a plan to take me, and have hidden snares for me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And thou, Lord, knowest all their deadly counsel against me: account not their iniquities guiltless, and blot not out their sins from before thee: let their weakness come before thee; deal with them in the time of thy wrath.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></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="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>