Jeremiah 18

1 [the] word which to be to(wards) Jeremiah from with LORD to/for to say

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

2 to arise: rise and to go down house: home [the] to form: potter and there [to] to hear: hear you [obj] word my

“Go down at once to the potter’s house, and there I will reveal My message to you.”

3 and to go down house: home [the] to form: potter (and behold he/she/it *QK) to make: [do] work upon [the] wheel

So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the wheel.

4 and to ruin [the] article/utensil which he/she/it to make in/on/with clay in/on/with hand [the] to form: potter and to return: again and to make him article/utensil another like/as as which to smooth in/on/with eye: appearance [the] to form: potter to/for to make: do

But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.

5 and to be word LORD to(wards) me to/for to say

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

6 like/as to form: potter [the] this not be able to/for to make: do to/for you house: household Israel utterance LORD behold like/as clay in/on/with hand [the] to form: potter so you(m. p.) in/on/with hand my house: household Israel

“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.

7 moment to speak: promise upon nation and upon kingdom to/for to uproot and to/for to tear and to/for to perish

At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.

8 and to return: turn back [the] nation [the] he/she/it from distress: evil his which to speak: speak upon him and to be sorry: relent upon [the] distress: harm which to devise: devise to/for to make: do to/for him

But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.

9 and moment to speak: promise upon nation and upon kingdom to/for to build and to/for to plant

And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,

10 and to make: do ([the] bad: evil *QK) in/on/with eye: seeing my to/for lest to hear: hear in/on/with voice my and to be sorry: relent upon [the] welfare which to say to/for be good [obj] him

and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.

11 and now to say please to(wards) man: anyone Judah and upon to dwell Jerusalem to/for to say thus to say LORD behold I to form: plan upon you distress: harm and to devise: devise upon you plot to return: return please man: anyone from way: conduct his [the] bad: evil and be good way: conduct your and deed your

Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.’

12 and to say to despair for after plot our to go: follow and man: anyone stubbornness heart his [the] bad: evil to make: do

But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

13 to/for so thus to say LORD to ask please in/on/with nation who? to hear: hear like/as these horror to make: do much virgin Israel

Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing.

14 to leave: forsake from rock Sirion snow Lebanon if: surely yes to uproot water be a stranger cool to flow

Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry?

15 for to forget me people my to/for vanity: vain to offer: offer and to stumble them in/on/with way: road their path forever: antiquity to/for to go: walk path way: road not to build

Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.

16 to/for to set: make land: country/planet their to/for horror: appalled (piping *QK) forever: enduring all to pass upon her be desolate: appalled and to wander in/on/with head his

They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.

17 like/as spirit: breath east to scatter them to/for face: before enemy neck and not face to see: see them in/on/with day calamity their

I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”

18 and to say to go: come! and to devise: devise upon Jeremiah plot for not to perish instruction from priest and counsel from wise and word from prophet to go: come! and to smite him in/on/with tongue and not to listen to(wards) all word his

Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”

19 to listen [emph?] LORD to(wards) me and to hear: hear to/for voice opponent my

Attend to me, O LORD. Hear what my accusers are saying!

20 to complete underneath: instead welfare distress: evil for to pierce pit to/for soul: life my to remember to stand: stand I to/for face: before your to/for to speak: speak upon them welfare to/for to return: turn back [obj] rage your from them

Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.

21 to/for so to give: give [obj] son: child their to/for famine and to pour them upon hand: power sword and to be woman: wife their childless and widow and human their to be to kill death youth their to smite sword in/on/with battle

Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

22 to hear: hear outcry from house: home their for to come (in): bring upon them band suddenly for to pierce (pit *QK) to/for to capture me and snare to hide to/for foot my

Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.

23 and you(m. s.) LORD to know [obj] all counsel their upon me to/for death not to atone upon iniquity: crime their and sin their from to/for face: before your not to wipe (and to be *QK) to stumble to/for face: before your in/on/with time face: anger your to make: do in/on/with them

But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.