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The Prophecy
of Jeremias 18
The word that came from Jeremias to the Lord, saying:
Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there
thou shalt hear my words.
And I went down into the potter's house, and behold
he was doing a work on the wheel.
And 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.
Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Cannot 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.
I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against
a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy
it.
If 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.
And I will suddenly speak of a nation and of a kingdom,
to build up and plant it.
If 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.
Now 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.
And 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.
Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ask among the nations:
Who hath heard such horrible things, as the virgin of
Israel hath done to excess?
Shall 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?
Because 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:
That 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.
As 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.
And 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.
Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries.
Shall 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.
Therefore 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.
Let 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.
But 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. |
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