These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Jeremiah 18
Tanakh 23 verses
- 1 The which came to from , saying:
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Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to My words.’
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Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he was at his work on the wheels.
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And whensoever the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
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- 5 Then the of came to me, saying:
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O house of , cannot I do with you as this potter? saith . Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are ye in My hand, O house of .
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At one instant I may speak concerning a nation, and concerning a , to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;
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but if that nation turn from their evil, because of which I have spoken against it, I of the evil that I thought to do unto it.
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Ezekiel 18:21 Jeremiah 26:13 Jeremiah 26:3 Judges 2:18 Hosea 11:8 Joel 2:13-14 Jonah 3:9-10 Jeremiah 7:3-7 Luke 13:3-5 Psalm 106:45 Amos 7:3-6 Psalm 135:14 Ezekiel 33:11 1 Kings 8:33-34 Jeremiah 15:6 Jonah 2:5-10 Ezekiel 33:13 Exodus 32:12 Isaiah 1:16-19 Jeremiah 42:10 Judges 10:15-16 Jonah 4:2 2 Chronicles 12:6 Jeremiah 36:3 Psalm 90:13 Jeremiah 26:19 Deuteronomy 32:36 - 9 And at one instant I may speak concerning a nation, and concerning a , to build and to plant it;
- 10 but if it do evil in My sight, that it hearken not to My voice, then I of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit it.
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Now therefore do thou speak to the men of , and to the inhabitants of , saying: Thus saith : Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you; return ye now every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.
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2 Kings 17:13 Isaiah 1:16-19 Jeremiah 35:15 Jeremiah 25:5 Jeremiah 7:3 Acts 26:20 Zechariah 1:3 Micah 2:3 Isaiah 55:6-7 Isaiah 5:5 James 5:1 Jeremiah 18:18 Genesis 11:3-4 2 Kings 5:5 Jeremiah 36:3 James 4:13 Genesis 11:7 Jeremiah 26:13 Jeremiah 36:7 Jeremiah 26:3 2 Kings 22:13 Jeremiah 4:6 Ezekiel 18:23 Ezekiel 18:30-32 Jeremiah 4:23 Jeremiah 51:11 Jeremiah 3:1 Lamentations 3:39-41 Jeremiah 11:19 Ezekiel 13:22 Jeremiah 3:22 - 12 But they say: There is no ; but we will walk after our own devices, and we will do every one after the stubbornness of his evil .’
- 13 Therefore thus saith : Ask ye now among the nations, Who hath heard such things; The virgin of hath done A very horrible thing.
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Doth the snow of Lebanon fail From the rock of the field? Or are the strange cold flowing waters Plucked up?
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For My people hath forgotten Me, They offer unto vanity; And they have been made to stumble in their ways, In the ancient paths, To walk in bypaths, In a way not cast up;
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Isaiah 57:14 Jeremiah 6:16 Jeremiah 2:32 Jeremiah 10:15 Jeremiah 2:13 Jeremiah 16:19 Hosea 11:2 Malachi 2:8 Isaiah 65:7 Jeremiah 17:13 Isaiah 41:29 Hosea 2:13 Jeremiah 13:25 Jeremiah 3:21 Jeremiah 44:15-19 Isaiah 3:12 Isaiah 62:10 Romans 14:21 Matthew 15:6 Jeremiah 2:19 Jeremiah 44:25 Jeremiah 19:5 Isaiah 9:16 -
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To make their land an astonishment, And a perpetual hissing; Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, And shake his head.
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Psalm 22:7 Jeremiah 25:9 Jeremiah 50:13 Ezekiel 33:28-29 1 Kings 9:8 Jeremiah 19:8 Micah 6:16 Jeremiah 49:13 2 Chronicles 7:20-21 Isaiah 37:22 Matthew 27:39 Leviticus 26:33-34 Ezekiel 6:14 Jeremiah 9:11 Isaiah 6:11 Lamentations 2:15-16 Mark 15:29 Ezekiel 12:19 Psalm 44:14 Leviticus 26:43 Deuteronomy 29:23 Deuteronomy 28:59 - 17 I will scatter them as with an east wind Before the enemy; I will look upon their back, and not their , In the day of their calamity.
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Then said they: ‘Come, and let us devise devices against ; For instruction shall not perish from the , Nor counsel from the wise, nor the from the . Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, And let us not give heed to any of his words.’
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Jeremiah 11:19 Psalm 52:2 Psalm 21:11 Malachi 2:7 Jeremiah 18:11 Isaiah 32:7 Psalm 64:3 Micah 2:1-3 Jeremiah 43:2 Job 5:13 Psalm 57:4 Leviticus 10:11 1 Kings 22:24 2 Samuel 17:14 Proverbs 18:21 Jeremiah 26:11 John 7:47-49 Jeremiah 14:14-16 Jeremiah 5:12-13 Jeremiah 2:8 2 Samuel 15:31 John 9:40 Jeremiah 29:25-29 Luke 11:45 Jeremiah 44:17 Jeremiah 13:13-14 - 19 Give heed to me, O , And hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
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Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have digged a pit for my . Remember how I stood before Thee To speak good for them, To turn away Thy wrath from them.
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Psalm 35:7 Psalm 57:6 Psalm 106:23 Psalm 35:12 1 Samuel 24:17-19 Jeremiah 18:22 Psalm 119:95 Ecclesiastes 10:8 Psalm 109:4-5 Proverbs 26:27 John 10:32 Proverbs 17:13 Ezekiel 22:30-31 John 15:25 Genesis 18:22-32 Job 6:27 Psalm 38:20 Zechariah 3:1-2 Jeremiah 7:16 Jeremiah 14:7-11 Jeremiah 11:14 Psalm 7:15 Jeremiah 14:20 - 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, And hurl them to the power of the sword; And let their wives be bereaved of their children, and widows; And let their men be slain of death, And their young men smitten of the sword in battle.
- 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, When thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them; For they have digged a pit to take me, And hid snares for my feet.
- 23 Yet, , 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 made to stumble before Thee; Deal Thou with them in the time of Thine anger.