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Because 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;

Will 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?

Therefore 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.

And 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.

Now 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.

If 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.

And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

O 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.

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

And 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.

Then I went down to the potter"s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.

Arise, and go down to the potter"s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.

The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

A man"s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.

He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.