1The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord , saying, 2Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. 3Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. 4And 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 .
5Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 6O 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.[ † ]Isaiah 45:9Romans 9:20-21Isaiah 64:8 7At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it ;[ † ]Jeremiah 1:10 8if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.[ † ]Jeremiah 7:3-7Jeremiah 12:16Ezekiel 18:21Ezekiel 33:11Psalms 106:45Jeremiah 26:3Hosea 11:8Joel 2:13Jonah 3:10 9And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it ; 10if 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. 11Now 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.[ † ]2 Kings 17:13Isaiah 1:16-19Jeremiah 4:1Acts 26:20Jeremiah 7:3-7 12And 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.[ † ]Isaiah 57:10Jeremiah 2:25Jeremiah 3:17Jeremiah 23:17
13Therefore thus saith the Lord ; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.[ † ]Isaiah 66:8Jeremiah 2:10-111 Corinthians 5:1Jeremiah 5:30Hosea 6:10 14Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken? 15Because my people hath 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;[ † ]Jeremiah 2:13-32Jeremiah 6:16 16to make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.[ † ]Jeremiah 19:81 Kings 9:8Lamentations 2:15Micah 6:16
17I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.[ † ]Jeremiah 13:24Psalms 48:7Jeremiah 2:27
18Then 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.[ † ]Jeremiah 11:19Leviticus 10:11Malachi 2:7John 7:48
19Give heed to me, O Lord , and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. 20Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.[ † ]Psalms 109:4Psalms 35:7Psalms 57:6Jeremiah 5:26Jeremiah 14:7-15:1 21Therefore 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.[ † ]Psalms 109:9-20Jeremiah 11:22Jeremiah 14:16Jeremiah 15:7-8Ezekiel 22:25 22Let 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. 23Yet, 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.[ † ]Nehemiah 4:5Psalms 35:14Psalms 109:14Isaiah 2:9Jeremiah 11:20Jeremiah 7:20