the lowland, and from the hill country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meal offerings, and frankincense, and bringing [sacrifices of] thanksgiving, to the house of Yahweh. 017:027 But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates of it, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched. 018:001 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, 018:002 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear my words. 018:003 Then I went down to the potter's house, and behold, he was making a work on the wheels. 018:004 When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. 018:005 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 018:006 House of Israel, can't I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel. 018:007 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it; 018:008 if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them. 018:009 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; 018:010 if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them. 018:011 Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return you now everyone from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings. 018:012 But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart. 018:013 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Ask you now among the nations, who has heard such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing. 018:014 Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up? 018:015 For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up; 018:016 to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head. 018:017 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy;