Jeremiah 18

1The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

2“Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.”Cross-references: Isa 20:2 · Jer 13:1 · Jer 19:1 · Jer 23:22 · Ezek 4:1 · Amos 7:7 · +2 more

3Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making something on the wheels.Cross-references: Jonah 1:3 · John 15:14 · Acts 26:19

4When 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.Cross-references: Isa 45:9 · Jer 18:6 · Rom 9:20

5Then Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

6“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.Cross-references: Isa 45:9 · Isa 64:8 · Jer 18:4 · Dan 4:23 · Matt 20:15 · Rom 9:20 · +1 more

7At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it,Cross-references: Jer 1:10 · Jer 12:14 · Jer 25:9 · Jer 45:4 · Amos 9:8 · Jonah 3:4

8if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.Cross-references: Ex 32:12 · Deut 32:36 · Judg 2:18 · Judg 10:15 · 1Ki 8:33 · 2Chr 12:6 · +21 more

9At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it,Cross-references: Eccl 3:2 · Jer 1:10 · Jer 11:17 · Jer 30:18 · Jer 31:4 · Jer 31:28 · +3 more

10if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they don’t obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.Cross-references: Num 14:22 · Num 14:34 · 1Sam 2:30 · 1Sam 13:13 · 1Sam 15:11 · 1Sam 15:35 · +6 more

11“Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you. Everyone return from his evil way now, and amend your ways and your doings.”’Cross-references: Gen 11:3 · Gen 11:7 · 2Ki 5:5 · 2Ki 17:13 · 2Ki 22:13 · Isa 1:16 · +25 more

12But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”Cross-references: Gen 6:5 · Gen 8:21 · Deut 29:19 · 2Ki 6:33 · Isa 57:10 · Jer 2:25 · +9 more

13Therefore Yahweh says: “Ask now among the nations, ‘Who has heard such things?’ The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.Cross-references: 1Sam 4:7 · Isa 36:22 · Isa 66:8 · Jer 2:10 · Jer 5:30 · Jer 14:17 · +5 more

14Will the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? Will the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?Cross-references: John 6:68

15For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up,Cross-references: Isa 3:12 · Isa 9:16 · Isa 41:29 · Isa 57:14 · Isa 62:10 · Isa 65:7 · +17 more

16to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.Cross-references: Lev 26:33 · Lev 26:43 · Deut 28:59 · Deut 29:23 · 1Ki 9:8 · 2Chr 7:20 · +16 more

17I 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.Cross-references: Deut 28:25 · Deut 28:64 · Deut 31:17 · Deut 32:35 · Judg 10:13 · Job 27:21 · +7 more

18Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”Cross-references: Lev 10:11 · 2Sam 15:31 · 2Sam 17:14 · 1Ki 22:24 · Job 5:13 · Ps 21:11 · +20 more

19Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.Cross-references: 2Ki 19:16 · Neh 4:4 · Neh 6:9 · Ps 55:16 · Ps 56:1 · Ps 64:1 · +5 more

20Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.Cross-references: Gen 18:22 · 1Sam 24:17 · Job 6:27 · Ps 7:15 · Ps 35:7 · Ps 35:12 · +17 more

21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows. Let their men be killed and their young men struck by the sword in battle.Cross-references: Ex 22:24 · Deut 32:25 · 2Chr 36:17 · Ps 109:9 · Jer 9:21 · Jer 11:20 · +9 more

22Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.Cross-references: Ps 38:12 · Ps 56:5 · Ps 64:4 · Ps 140:5 · Isa 10:30 · Isa 22:1 · +12 more

23Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don’t forgive their iniquity. Don’t blot out their sin from your sight, Let them be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger.Cross-references: Neh 4:4 · Ps 35:4 · Ps 37:32 · Ps 59:5 · Ps 69:22 · Ps 109:14 · +9 more