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 <div class="label">18</div><div class="s2">Parable of the Potter</div><div class="p"> 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.</div><div class="p"> 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. 7At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; 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. 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. 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.</div><div class="p"> 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. 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; 16to make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. 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.</div><div class="s2">Enemies of the Prophet</div><div class="p"> 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.</div><div class="p"> 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. 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. 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.</div>
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 <div class="label">19</div><div class="s2">Broken Pottery</div><div class="p"> 1Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests; 2and go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee, 3and say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle. 4Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents; 5they have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind: 6therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter. 7And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. 8And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof. 9And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.</div><div class="p"> 10Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, 11and shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury. 12Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet: 13and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.</div><div class="p"> 14Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD's house; and said to all the people, 15Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.</div>
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 <div class="label">20</div><div class="s2">Jeremiah in the Stocks</div><div class="p"> 1Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things. 2Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD. 3And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor-missabib. 4For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword. 5Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon. 6And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.</div><div class="p"> 7O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me. 8For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily. 9Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. 10For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him. 11But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten. 12But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause. 13Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.</div><div class="p"> 14Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. 15Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. 16And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; 17because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me. 18Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?</div>
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 <div class="label">76</div><div class="d">To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song of Asaph.</div><div class="q1"> 1In Judah is God known:</div><div class="q2">His name is great in Israel.</div><div class="q1"> 2In Salem also is his tabernacle,</div><div class="q2">And his dwelling place in Zion.</div><div class="q1"> 3There brake he the arrows of the bow,</div><div class="q2">The shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 4Thou art more glorious and excellent</div><div class="q2">Than the mountains of prey.</div><div class="q1"> 5The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep:</div><div class="q2">And none of the men of might have found their hands.</div><div class="q1"> 6At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob,</div><div class="q2">Both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 7Thou, even thou, art to be feared:</div><div class="q2">And who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?</div><div class="q1"> 8Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven;</div><div class="q2">The earth feared, and was still,</div><div class="q1"> 9When God arose to judgment,</div><div class="q2">To save all the meek of the earth. Selah.</div><div class="q1"> 10Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee:</div><div class="q2">The remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 11Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: Let all that be round about him</div><div class="q2">Bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.</div><div class="q1"> 12He shall cut off the spirit of princes:</div><div class="q2"> He is terrible to the kings of the earth.</div><div class="b"></div>
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 <div class="label">25</div><div class="s1">Proverbs of Solomon</div><div class="p"> 1These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.</div><div class="q1"> 2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing:</div><div class="q2">But the honour of kings is to search out a matter.</div><div class="q1"> 3The heaven for height, and the earth for depth,</div><div class="q2">And the heart of kings is unsearchable.</div><div class="q1"> 4Take away the dross from the silver,</div><div class="q2">And there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.</div><div class="q1"> 5Take away the wicked from before the king,</div><div class="q2">And his throne shall be established in righteousness.</div><div class="q1"> 6Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king,</div><div class="q2">And stand not in the place of great men:</div><div class="q1"> 7For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither;</div><div class="q2">Than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince</div><div class="q2">Whom thine eyes have seen.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 8Go not forth hastily to strive,</div><div class="q2">Lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof,</div><div class="q2">When thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.</div><div class="q1"> 9Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself;</div><div class="q2">And discover not a secret to another:</div><div class="q1"> 10Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame,</div><div class="q2">And thine infamy turn not away.</div><div class="q1"> 11A word fitly spoken</div><div class="q2"> Is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.</div><div class="q1"> 12 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold,</div><div class="q2"> So is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.</div><div class="q1"> 13As the cold of snow in the time of harvest,</div><div class="q2"> So is a faithful messenger to them that send him:</div><div class="q2">For he refresheth the soul of his masters.</div><div class="q1"> 14Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift</div><div class="q2"> Is like clouds and wind without rain.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 15By long forbearing is a prince persuaded,</div><div class="q2">And a soft tongue breaketh the bone.</div><div class="q1"> 16Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee,</div><div class="q2">Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.</div><div class="q1"> 17Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house;</div><div class="q2">Lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.</div><div class="q1"> 18A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour</div><div class="q2"> Is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.</div><div class="q1"> 19Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble</div><div class="q2"> Is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.</div><div class="q1"> 20 As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre,</div><div class="q2">So is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.</div><div class="q1"> 21If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat;</div><div class="q2">And if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:</div><div class="q1"> 22For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head,</div><div class="q2">And the LORD shall reward thee.</div><div class="q1"> 23The north wind driveth away rain:</div><div class="q2">So doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.</div><div class="q1"> 24 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop,</div><div class="q2">Than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.</div><div class="q1"> 25 As cold waters to a thirsty soul,</div><div class="q2">So is good news from a far country.</div><div class="q1"> 26A righteous man falling down before the wicked</div><div class="q2"> Is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.</div><div class="q1"> 27 It is not good to eat much honey:</div><div class="q2">So for men to search their own glory is not glory.</div><div class="q1"> 28He that hath no rule over his own spirit</div><div class="q2"> Is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.</div><div class="b"></div>
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 <div class="label">16</div><div class="p"> 1 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. 2They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. 3And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. 4But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you. 5But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou? 6But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart. 7Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. 8And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9of sin, because they believe not on me; 10of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; 11of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.</div><div class="p"> 12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. 13Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. 14He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. 15All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you. 16A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.</div><div class="p"> 17Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father? 18They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith. 19Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me? 20Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. 21A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. 22And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you. 23And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. 24Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.</div><div class="p"> 25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. 26At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: 27for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. 28I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. 29His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. 30Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God. 31Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe? 32Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. 33These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.</div>
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