Jeremiah 18:11-12
11So now, tell the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem ▼▼ For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; Journey of Paul map 1-F4; Journey of Paul map 2-F4; Journey of Paul map 3-F4; Journey of Paul map 4-F4.
this: The Lord says, ‘I am preparing to bring disaster on you! I am making plans to punish you. ▼▼ Heb “I am forming disaster and making plans against you.” The word translated “forming” is the same as that for “potter,” so there is a wordplay taking the reader back to v. 5. They are in his hands like the clay in the hands of the potter. Since they have not been pliable he forms new plans. He still offers them opportunity to repent; but their response is predictable.
So, every one of you, stop the evil things you have been doing. ▼ Correct the way you have been living and do what is right.’ ▼ 12But they just keep saying, ‘We do not care what you say! ▼ We will do whatever we want to do! We will continue to behave wickedly and stubbornly!’” ▼▼ Heb “We will follow our own plans and do each one according to the stubbornness of his own wicked heart.”
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