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not thrust in my selfe for a pastour after thee, potters house, and there shall I shewe thee my
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neither haue I desired the day of miserie, thou words. Then I went downe to the potters house,
knowest: that which came out of my lips, was and behold, he wrought a worke on the wheeles.
right before thee. 17 Be not terrible vnto mee: 4 And the vessell that he made of clay, was broken
thou art mine hope in the day of aduersitie. 18 Let in the hand of the potter. so he returned, and
them bee confounded, that persecute me, but made it another vessel, as seemed good to the
let not me be confounded: let them be afraide, potter to make it. 5 Then the worde of the Lord
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but let not me be afraide: bring vpon them the came vnto me, saying, O house of Israel, cannot
day of aduersitie, and destroy them with double I doe with you as this potter, sayth the Lord?
destruction. 19 Thus hath the Lord said vnto me, beholde, as the clay is in the potters hande, so
Goe and stande in the gate of the children of are you in mine hande, O house of Israel. 7 I
the people, whereby the Kings of Iudah come will speake suddenly against a nation or against a
in, and by the which they goe out, and in all ye kingdome to plucke it vp, and to roote it out and
gates of Ierusalem, 20 And say vnto them, Heare to destroy it. But if this nation, against whom I
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the word of the Lord, ye Kings of Iudah, and al haue pronounced, turne from their wickednesse,
Iudah, and all the inhabitants of Ierusale, that I will repent of the plague that I thought to
enter in by these gates. 21 Thus sayth the Lord, bring vpon them. 9 And I wil speake suddenly
Take heede to your soules, and beare no burden concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdome
in the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates to builde it and to plant it. 10 But if it do euill in my
of Ierusalem. 22 Neither cary foorth burdens out sight and heare not my voyce, I will repent of ye
of your houses in the Sabbath day: neither doe goodthat I thoughtto do for them. 11 Speakethou
yee any worke, but sanctifie the Sabbath, as I nowe therefore vnto the men of Iudah, and to
commanded your fathers. 23 But they obeied the inhabitants of Ierusalem, saying, Thus saith
not, neither inclined their eares, but made their ye Lord, Behold, I prepare a plague for you, and
neckes stiffe and would not heare, nor receiue
correction. 24 Neuerthelesse if ye will heare me, purpose a thing against you: returne you there-
sayth the Lord, and beare no burden through fore euery one from his euill way, and make your
the gates of the citie in the Sabbath day, but wayes and your workes good. 12 But they sayde
sanctifie ye Sabbath day, so that ye do no worke desperately, Surely wee will walke after our owne
therein, 25 Then shall the Kings and the princes imaginations, and doe euery man after the stub-
enter in at the gates of this citie, and shall sit burnnesse of his wicked heart. 13 Therefore thus
saith the Lord, Aske now among the heathen,
vpon the throne of Dauid, and shall ride vpon who hath heard such thinges? the virgin of
charets, and vpon horses, both they and their Israel hath done very filthily. 14 Will a man
princes, the men of Iudah, and the inhabitants forsake the snowe of Lebanon, which commeth
of Ierusalem: and this citie shall remaine for from the rocke of the fielde? or shall the colde
euer. 26 And they shall come from the cities of flowing waters, that come from another place, be
Iudah, and from about Ierusalem, and from the forsaken? 15 Because my people hath forgotten
land of Beniamin, and from the plaine, and from
the mountaines, and from the South, which shall me, and haue burnt incense to vanitie, and their
prophets haue caused them to stumble in their
bring burnt offrings, and sacrifices, and meate wayes from the auncient wayes, to walke in the
offrings, and incense, and shall bring sacrifice of pathes and way that is not troden, 16 To make
prayse into the house of the Lord. 27 But if ye their land desolate and a perpetual derision,
will not heare me to sanctifie the Sabbath day, so that euery one that passeth thereby, shalbe
and not to beare a burden nor to go through the astonished and wagge his head, 17 I will scatter
gates of Ierusalem in the Sabbath day, then will them with an East winde before the enemie: I
I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall will shewe them the backe, and not the face in
deuoure the palaces of Ierusalem, and it shall not the day of their destruction. 18 Then sayde they,
be quenched. Come, and let vs imagine some deuice against
Ieremiah: for the Lawe shall not perish from the
18 Priest, nor counsell from the wise, nor the worde
1 The worde which came to Ieremiah from from the Prophet: come, and let vs smite him
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the Lord, saying, Arise, and go downe into the with the tongue, and let vs not giue heede to any