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So I will hurl you out of this land into the land which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers; and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will grant you no favor.'

As they remember their children,So they remember their altars and their AsherimBy green trees on the high hills.

As a partridge that hatches eggs which it has not laid,So is he who makes a fortune, but unjustly;In the midst of his days it will forsake him,And in the end he will be a wicked fool."

But the vessel that he was making of clay was ruined in the hand of the potter, so he turned around and made it into another vessel, according to what was right in the eyes of the potter to make.

"Can I not, O house of Israel, deal with you as this potter does?" declares Yahweh. "Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.

So now then, speak to the men of Judah and against the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, "Behold, I am forming calamity against you and devising a plan against you. Oh turn back, each of you from his evil way, and do good in your ways and your deeds."'

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

and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "Just so will I break this people and this city, even as one breaks a potter's vessel, which cannot again be repaired; and they will bury in Topheth because there is no other place for burial.

This is what I will do to this place and its inhabitants," declares Yahweh, "so as to make this city like Topheth.

"Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and all its towns the entire calamity that I have spoken against it because they have stiffened their necks so as not to hear My words.'"

For thus says Yahweh, ‘Behold, I am going to make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends; and while your eyes look on, they will fall by the sword of their enemies. So I will give over all Judah to the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will take them away into exile to Babylon and will strike them down with the sword.

For I have heard the bad report of many,"Terror on every side!Denounce him; yes, let us denounce him!"All my trusted friends,Keeping watch for my fall, say:"Perhaps he will be deceived, so that we may prevail against himAnd take our revenge on him."

Because he did not put me to death from the womb,So that my mother would have been my grave,And her womb ever pregnant.

Why did I ever come forth from the wombTo look on trouble and sorrow,So that my days have been spent in shame?

"Please inquire of Yahweh on our behalf, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is warring against us; perhaps Yahweh will deal with us according to all His wonderful acts, so that the enemy will go up from us."

Also among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen an appalling thing:The committing of adultery and walking in lying;And they strengthen the hands of evildoers,So that no one has turned back from his evil.All of them have become to Me like Sodom,And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

Therefore behold, I will surely forget you and abandon you, along with the city which I gave you and your fathers, so that you are out of My presence.

"Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Like these good figs, so I will recognize as good the exiles of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans.

‘But like the rotten figs which cannot be eaten due to rottenness—indeed, thus says Yahweh—so I will give over Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and the ones who inhabit the land of Egypt.

So now, make good your ways and your deeds and listen to the voice of Yahweh your God; and Yahweh will relent of the evil demise which He has spoken against you.