Jeremiah 18:6-16

6 He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the LORD. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel.
7 If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed,
8 and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.
9 And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted,
10 and 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.’
12 But they will reply, ‘It’s no use. We will continue with our own plans; we will all follow the stubbornness of our evil hearts.’ ”
13 Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard anything like this? A most horrible thing has been done by Virgin Israel.
14 Does the snow of Lebanon ever vanish from its rocky slopes? Do its cool waters from distant sources ever stop flowing?[a]
15 Yet my people have forgotten me; they burn incense to worthless idols, which made them stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths. They made them walk in byways, on roads not built up.
16 Their land will be an object of horror and of lasting scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will shake their heads.

Cross References 29

  • 1. S Isaiah 29:16; Isaiah 45:9; Romans 9:20-21
  • 2. S Genesis 2:7
  • 3. Jeremiah 1:10
  • 4. S Exodus 32:14; Psalms 25:11; Jeremiah 26:13; Jeremiah 36:3; John 3:8-10
  • 5. Jeremiah 31:28; Jeremiah 42:10; Daniel 9:14; Ezekiel 18:21; Hosea 11:8-9; Joel 2:13; John 4:2
  • 6. Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 31:28
  • 7. Ezekiel 33:18
  • 8. 1 Samuel 2:29-30; 1 Samuel 13:13
  • 9. S Jeremiah 1:10
  • 10. S 2 Kings 22:16; S Jeremiah 4:6
  • 11. ver 18
  • 12. S Deuteronomy 4:30; S 2 Kings 17:13; Isaiah 1:16-19
  • 13. S Jeremiah 7:3
  • 14. S Job 16:17
  • 15. S Isaiah 57:10; Jeremiah 2:25
  • 16. S Jeremiah 3:17
  • 17. S Isaiah 66:8; Jeremiah 2:10
  • 18. S Jeremiah 5:30
  • 19. S 2 Kings 19:21
  • 20. S Isaiah 17:10
  • 21. S Isaiah 1:13; Jeremiah 44:15,19
  • 22. Jeremiah 10:15; Jeremiah 51:18; Hosea 11:2
  • 23. Ezekiel 44:12; Malachi 2:8
  • 24. Jeremiah 6:16
  • 25. S Isaiah 57:14; Isaiah 62:10
  • 26. S Deuteronomy 28:37; Jeremiah 25:9; Ezekiel 33:28-29
  • 27. Jeremiah 19:8; Jeremiah 42:18
  • 28. S Leviticus 26:32
  • 29. S 2 Kings 19:21; S Job 16:4; Psalms 22:7; Lamentations 1:12

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.
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