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Jeremiah 18:1-23 — At the Potter's House

Jer.18.1-23

¹This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: ²Arise, go down to the potter's house, and there I will let you hear my words. ³So I went down to the potter's house, and there he was, working at the wheel. ⁴But the vessel he was making out of clay was spoiled in the potter's hand, so he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed right to the potter to make. ⁵Then the word of the LORD came to me: ⁶“House of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?” declares the LORD. "Look, like clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel. ⁷At one moment I may speak concerning a nation or a kingdom, to pluck up, tear down, and destroy it, ⁸but if that nation turns from its evil, against which I spoke, then I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it. ⁹And at another moment I may speak concerning a nation or a kingdom, to build and to plant it, ¹⁰but if it does what is evil in my sight by not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I said I would do for it. ¹¹Now therefore say to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, 'Thus says the LORD: Look, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Turn back now, each of you, from his evil way, and make your ways and your deeds good.' ¹²But they will say, 'It is hopeless , for we will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.' ¹³Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask now among the nations, who has heard the like of this? Virgin Israel has done a most horrible thing. ¹⁴Does the snow of Lebanon vanish from the rocky heights? Do cold flowing waters from afar ever cease? ¹⁵But my people have forgotten me. They burn incense to what is worthless, and they have stumbled from their ways, from the ancient paths, to walk on side roads, on an unbuilt road. ¹⁶making their land a desolation, an object of hissing forever ; everyone who passes by it will be appalled and shake his head. ¹⁷Like an east wind I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back and not my face in the day of their calamity. ¹⁸Then they said, 'Come, let us devise plans against Jeremiah, for the law will not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise man, nor word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us pay no attention to any of his words.' ¹⁹Give heed to me, O LORD, and hear the voice of my adversaries. ²⁰Should evil be repaid for good? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn your wrath away from them. ²¹Therefore give their children over to famine, and hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become bereaved and widowed, and let their men be struck down by pestilence, their young men struck by the sword in battle. ²²Let a cry be heard from their houses when you suddenly bring raiders upon them, for they have dug a pit to seize me and have hidden snares for my feet. ²³But you, O LORD, know all their scheme against me to kill me. Do not forgive their iniquity, and do not blot out their sin from before you. Let them be overthrown before you; deal with them in the time of your anger.

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4/11/2026

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