Jeremiah 18 (NET)

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Jeremiah 18:2²“Go down at once to the potter’s house. I will speak to you further there.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 1:1 Acts 9:6 Jer 19:1-2 Jer 23:22 Amos 7:7 Ezek 4:1-5 Isa 20:2 Jer 13:1

Jeremiah 18:3³So I went down to the potter’s house and found him working at his wheel.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 15:14 Acts 26:19 Jonah 1:3

Jeremiah 18:4⁴Now and then there would be something wrong with the pot he was molding from the clay with his hands. So he would rework the clay into another kind of pot as he saw fit.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 9:20-23 Jer 18:6 Isa 45:9

Jeremiah 18:5⁵Then the Lord’ s message came to me,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Jeremiah 18:6⁶“I, the Lord, say: ‘O nation of Israel, can I not deal with you as this potter deals with the clay? In my hands, you, O nation of Israel, are just like the clay in this potter’s hand.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 64:8 Rom 9:20-21 Isa 45:9 Jer 18:4 Matt 20:15 Dan 4:23 Rom 11:34

Jeremiah 18:7⁷There are times, Jeremiah, when I threaten to uproot, tear down, and destroy a nation or kingdom.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 1:10 Jer 12:14-17 Jer 45:4 Amos 9:8 Jer 25:9-14 Jonah 3:4

Jeremiah 18:10¹⁰But if that nation does what displeases me and does not obey me, then I will cancel the good I promised to do to it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 2:30 Ezek 33:18 1 Sam 13:13 Ezek 18:24 1 Sam 15:11 Ps 125:5 1 Sam 15:35 Jer 7:23-28 Num 14:22 Zeph 1:6

Jeremiah 18:11¹¹So now, tell the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem this: The Lord says, ‘I am preparing to bring disaster on you! I am making plans to punish you. So, every one of you, stop the evil things you have been doing. Correct the way you have been living and do what is right.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 17:13 Isa 55:6-7 Isa 1:16-19 Jer 35:15 Jer 7:3 Jer 25:5 Acts 26:20 Jas 5:1 Zech 1:3 Isa 5:5

Jeremiah 18:12¹²But they just keep saying, ‘We do not care what you say! We will do whatever we want to do! We will continue to behave wickedly and stubbornly!’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 2:25 Deut 29:19 Jer 16:12 Jer 7:24 Isa 57:10 Gen 8:21 Jer 3:17 Luke 1:51 Mark 7:21-22 2 Kgs 6:33

Jeremiah 18:13¹³Therefore, the Lord says, “Ask the people of other nations whether they have heard of anything like this. Israel should have been like a virgin, but she has done something utterly revolting!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 5:30 Hos 6:10 Isa 66:8 Jer 2:10-13 Jer 23:14 Jer 14:17 Jer 31:4 1 Cor 5:1 1 Sam 4:7 Isa 36:22

Jeremiah 18:14¹⁴Does the snow ever completely vanish from the rocky slopes of Lebanon? Do the cool waters from those distant mountains ever cease to flow?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 6:68

Jeremiah 18:15¹⁵Yet my people have forgotten me and offered sacrifices to worthless idols. This makes them stumble along in the way they live and leave the old reliable path of their fathers. They have left them to walk in bypaths, in roads that are not smooth and level.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 6:16 Jer 2:32 Hos 11:2 Isa 57:14 Jer 2:13 Mal 2:8 Isa 41:29 Jer 10:15 Jer 17:13 Hos 2:13

Jeremiah 18:16¹⁶So their land will become an object of horror. People will forever hiss out their scorn over it. All who pass that way will be filled with horror and will shake their heads in derision.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 22:7 Jer 25:9 Jer 19:8 1 Kgs 9:8 Ezek 33:28-29 Jer 49:13 Jer 50:13 Matt 27:39 Mic 6:16 2 Chr 7:20-21

Jeremiah 18:17¹⁷I will scatter them before their enemies like dust blowing in front of a burning east wind. I will turn my back on them and not look favorably on them when disaster strikes them.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 13:24 Jer 2:27 Hos 13:15 Job 27:21 Ps 48:7 Jer 32:33 Jer 46:21 Deut 28:25 Deut 28:64 Deut 31:17

Jeremiah 18:18¹⁸Then some people said, “Come on! Let us consider how to deal with Jeremiah! There will still be priests to instruct us, wise men to give us advice, and prophets to declare God’s word. Come on! Let’s bring charges against him and get rid of him! Then we will not need to pay attention to anything he says.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 52:2 Jer 11:19 Mal 2:7 Jer 18:11 Jer 13:13-14 Jer 5:12-13 Mic 2:1-3 Prov 18:21 Ps 21:11 Ps 57:4

Jeremiah 18:20²⁰Should good be paid back with evil? Yet they are virtually digging a pit to kill me. Just remember how I stood before you pleading on their behalf to keep you from venting your anger on them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 35:7 Ps 57:6 Ps 106:23 1 Sam 24:17-19 Ps 35:12 Eccl 10:8 Jer 18:22 Prov 26:27 Ps 109:4-5 Ps 119:95

Jeremiah 18:21²¹So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 109:9-20 Amos 4:10 Deut 32:25 Exod 22:24 Jer 15:8 Jer 16:3-4 Jer 9:21 Lam 5:3 2 Chr 36:17 2 Tim 4:14

Jeremiah 18:22²²Let cries of terror be heard in their houses when you send bands of raiders unexpectedly to plunder them. For they have virtually dug a pit to capture me and have hidden traps for me to step into.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 6:26 Ps 140:5 Jer 25:34-36 Zeph 1:10-11 Isa 10:30 Ps 56:5-7 Zeph 1:16 Isa 22:1-4 Jer 18:20 Jer 20:10

Jeremiah 18:23²³But you, Lord, know all their plots to kill me. Do not pardon their crimes! Do not ignore their sins as though you had erased them. Let them be brought down in defeat before you. Deal with them while you are still angry!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 35:4 Ps 69:22-28 Isa 2:9 Neh 4:4-5 Ps 109:14-15 Isa 10:3 Jer 11:18-20 Jer 11:23 Jer 15:15 Jer 18:18