1The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying:

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2Arise, and go down into the potter's house, and there thou shalt hear my words.

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Hebrews 1:1, Hebrews 1:1, Jeremiah 19:1, Jeremiah 19:2, Jeremiah 19:1

3And I went down into the potter's house, and behold he was doing a work on the wheel.

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Jonah 1:3, Acts 26:19, John 15:14, Jonah 1:3, Acts 26:19

4And the vessel was broken which he was making of clay with his hands: and turning he made another vessel, as it seemed good in his eyes to make it.

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Romans 9:20, Romans 9:23, Romans 9:20, Romans 9:23, Jeremiah 18:6

5Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

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6Cannot I do with you, as this potter, O house of Israel, saith the Lord? behold as clay is in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

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Isaiah 64:8, Isaiah 64:8, Romans 9:20, Romans 9:21, Romans 9:20

7I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy it.

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Jeremiah 1:10, Jeremiah 1:10, Jeremiah 45:4, Jeremiah 12:14, Jeremiah 12:17

8If that nation against which I have spoken, shall repent of their evil, I also will repent of the evil that I have thought to do to them.

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Ezekiel 18:21, Ezekiel 18:21, Jeremiah 26:13, Jeremiah 26:13, Jonah 3:9

9And I will suddenly speak of a nation and of a kingdom, to build up and plant it.

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Jeremiah 31:28, Jeremiah 31:28, Jeremiah 1:10, Amos 9:11, Amos 9:15

10If it shall do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice: I will repent of the good that I have spoken to do unto it.

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Ezekiel 33:18, 1 Samuel 2:30, Ezekiel 33:18, 1 Samuel 2:30, Ezekiel 18:24

11Now therefore tell the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: let every man of you return from his evil way, and make ye your ways and your doings good.

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2 Kings 17:13, 2 Kings 17:13, Jeremiah 35:15, Isaiah 1:16, Isaiah 1:19

12And they said; We have no hopes: for we will go after our own thoughts, and we will do every one according to the perverseness of his evil heart.

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Jeremiah 2:25, Jeremiah 2:25, Deuteronomy 29:19, Deuteronomy 29:19, Isaiah 57:10

13Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ask among the nations: Who hath heard such horrible things, as the virgin of Israel hath done to excess?

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Jeremiah 5:30, Jeremiah 5:30, Jeremiah 23:14, Jeremiah 2:10, Jeremiah 2:13

14Shall the snow of Libanus fail from the rock of the field? or can the cold waters that gush out and run down, be taken away?

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John 6:68, John 6:68

15Because my people have forgotten me, sacrificing in vain, and stumbling in their ways, in ancient paths, to walk by them in a way not trodden:

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Jeremiah 6:16, Jeremiah 6:16, Jeremiah 2:32, Hosea 11:2, Isaiah 57:14

16That their land might be given up to desolation, and to a perpetual hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and wag his head.

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Psalms 22:7, Psalms 22:7, Jeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 19:8

17As a burning wind will I scatter them before the enemy: I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their destruction.

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Jeremiah 13:24, Jeremiah 13:24, Jeremiah 2:27, Jeremiah 2:27, Psalms 48:7

18And they said: Come, and let us invent 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 strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.

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Psalms 52:2, Psalms 52:2, Jeremiah 11:19, Malachi 2:7, Jeremiah 11:19

19Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries.

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Nehemiah 6:9, Nehemiah 6:9, Micah 7:8, Psalms 55:16, Psalms 55:17

20Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, to speak good for them, and to turn away thy indignation from them.

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Psalms 57:6, Psalms 35:7, Psalms 57:6, Psalms 35:7, Psalms 106:23

21Therefore deliver up their children to famine, and bring them into the hands of the sword: let their wives be bereaved of children and widows: and let their husbands be slain by death: let their young men be stabbed with the sword in battle.

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Psalms 109:9, Psalms 109:20, Psalms 109:9, Psalms 109:20, Jeremiah 9:21

22Let a cry be heard out of their houses: for thou shalt bring the robber upon them suddenly: because they have digged a pit to take me, and have hid snares for my feet.

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Jeremiah 6:26, Jeremiah 6:26, Psalms 140:5, Psalms 140:5, Zephaniah 1:10

23But thou, O Lord, knowest all their counsel against me unto death: not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from thy sight: let them be overthrown before thy eyes, in the time of thy wrath do thou destroy them.

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Psalms 35:4, Psalms 69:22, Psalms 69:28, Psalms 35:4, Psalms 69:22