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Chapter 18 At the Potter's House 1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:2“Go down to the potter's house, and there I will give you my message.”3So I went down to the potter's house, and I saw him working at the wheel.4But 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.5Then the word of the LORD came to me:6“O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?” declares the LORD. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.7If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed,8and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.9And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted,10and 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. 11“Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, ‘This is what the LORD 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.’12But they will reply, ‘It's no use. We will continue with our own plans; each of us will follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’” 13Therefore this is what the LORD says: 14Does the snow of Lebanon 15Yet my people have forgotten me; 16Their land will be laid waste, 17Like a wind from the east, 18They said, “Come, let's make plans against Jeremiah; for the teaching of the law by the priest will not be lost, 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.” 19Listen to me, O LORD;hear what my accusers are saying! 20Should good be repaid with evil? 21So give their children over to famine; 22Let a cry be heard from their houses 23But you know, O LORD, Chapter 19 1This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take along some of the elders of the people and of the priests2and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. There proclaim the words I tell you,3and say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Listen! I am going to bring a disaster on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle.4For they have forsaken me and made this a place of foreign gods; they have burned sacrifices in it to gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.5They have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind.6So beware, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when people will no longer call this place Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.7“‘In this place I will ruinThe Hebrew for ruin sounds like the Hebrew for jar (see verses 1 and 10). the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, at the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.8I will devastate this city and make it an object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds.9I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh during the stress of the siege imposed on them by the enemies who seek their lives.’ 10“Then break the jar while those who go with you are watching,11and say to them, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty says: I will smash this nation and this city just as this potter's jar is smashed and cannot be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.12This is what I will do to this place and to those who live here, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.13The houses in Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah will be defiled like this place, Topheth—all the houses where they burned incense on the roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.’” 14Jeremiah then returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and stood in the court of the LORD's temple and said to all the people,15“This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘Listen! I am going to bring on this city and the villages around it every disaster I pronounced against them, because they were stiff-necked and would not listen to my words.’”
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