Jeremiah 18 — DRA
18Verse 1The word that came from Jeremias to the Lord, saying:Verse 2Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there thou shalt hear my words.Verse 3And I went down into the potter’s house, and behold he was doing a work on the wheel.Verse 4And the vessel was broken which he was making with clay with his hands: and turning he made another vessel, as it seemed good in his eyes to make it.Verse 5Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:Verse 6Cannot I do with you as this potter, saith the Lord? behold as clay is in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.Verse 7I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy it.Verse 8If that nation against which I have spoken, shall repent of their evil, I also will repent of the evil that I have thought to do to them.Verse 9And I will suddenly speak of a nation and of a kingdom, to build up and plant it.Verse 10If it shall do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice: I will repent of the good that I have spoken to do unto it.Verse 11Now therefore tell the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: let every man of you return from his evil way, and make ye your ways and your doings good.Verse 12And they said: We have no hopes: for we will go after our own thoughts, and we will do every one according to the perverseness of his evil heart.Verse 13Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ask among the nations: Who hath heard such horrible things, as the virgin of Israel hath done to excess?Verse 14Shall now the snow of Libanus fail from the rock of the field? or can the cold waters that gush out and run down, be taken away?Verse 15Because my people have forgotten me, sacrificing in vain, and stumbling in their ways, in ancient paths, to walk by them in a way not trodden:Verse 16That their land might be given up to desolation, and to a perpetual hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and wag his head.Verse 17As a burning will I scatter them before the enemy: I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their destruction.Verse 18And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremias: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.Verse 19Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries.Verse 20Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, so speak good for them, and turn away thy indignation from them.Verse 21Therefore deliver up their children to famine, and bring them into the hands of the sword: let their wives be bereaved of children and widows: and let their husbands be slain by death: let their young men be stabbed with the sword in battle.Verse 22Let a cry be heard out of their houses: for thou shalt bring the robber upon them suddenly: because they have digged a pit to take me, and have hid snares for my feet.Verse 23But thou, O Lord, knowest all their counsel against me unto death: forgive not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from thy sight: let them be overthrown before thy eyes, in the time of thy wrath do thou destroy them.