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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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:

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.

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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