> [!title|noicon] **Jeremiah 18**
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[Note for Jeremiah 18:1-6<sup>↗](Jeremiah%2018%20FSI.md#^jer18-1-6)
1 THE word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, ^1
2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. ^2
3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. ^3
4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make _it_. ^4
5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ^5
6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay _is_ in the potter's hand, so _are_ ye in mine hand, O house of Israel. ^6
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[Note for Jeremiah 18:7-10<sup>↗](Jeremiah%2018%20FSI.md#^jer18-7-10)
7 _At_ _what_ instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy _it;_ ^7
8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. ^8
9 And _at_ _what_ instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant _it;_ ^9
10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good wherewith I said I would benefit them. ^10
[11<sup>↗](Jeremiah%2018%20FSI.md#^jer18-11-12)¶ Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good. ^11
[12<sup>↗](Jeremiah%2018%20FSI.md#^jer18-11-12) And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. ^12
[13<sup>↗](Jeremiah%2018%20FSI.md#^jer18-13) Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who has heard such things: the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing. ^13
[14<sup>↗](Jeremiah%2018%20FSI.md#^jer18-14) Will _a_ _man_ leave the snow of Lebanon _which_ _comes_ from the rock of the field? _or_ shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken? ^14
[15<sup>↗](Jeremiah%2018%20FSI.md#^jer18-15) Because my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways _from_ the ancient paths, to walk in paths, _in_ a way not cast up; ^15
[16<sup>↗](Jeremiah%2018%20FSI.md#^jer18-16) To make their land desolate, _and_ a perpetual hissing; every one that passes thereby shall be astonished and shake his head. ^16
[17<sup>↗](Jeremiah%2018%20FSI.md#^jer18-17) 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. ^17
[18<sup>↗](Jeremiah%2018%20FSI.md#^jer18-18) ¶ Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices 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 smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. ^18
19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. ^19
20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, _and_ to turn away thy wrath from them. ^20
21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their _blood_ by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and _be_ widows; and let their men be put to death; _let_ their young men _be_ slain by the sword in battle. ^21
22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have dug a pit to take me and hid snares for my feet. ^22
23 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay _me:_ forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal _thus_ with them in the time of thine anger. ^23