24:018:006 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. 24:018:007 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; 24:018:008 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. 24:018:009 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; 24:018:010 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. 24:018:011 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. 24:018:012 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. 24:018:013 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. 24:018:014 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? 24:018:015 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; 24:018:016 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. 24:018:017 I 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. 24:018:018 Then 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. 24:018:019 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. 24:018:020 Shall 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.