Jeremiah 18

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THE FORMER
So be the word to Yirme Yah from Yah Veh, saying, 2 Rise and descend to the house of the former; and there you hear my words. 3 And I descend to the house of the former; and, behold, he works a work on the stones: 4 and the instrument he works of morter ruins - as morter in the hand of the former: so he turns and works another instrument, as seems straight in the eyes of the former to work. 5 And so be the word of Yah Veh to me, saying, 6 O house of Yisra El, cannot I work with you as this former works? - an oracle of Yah Veh. Behold, as the morter in the hand of the former, so are you in my hand, O house of Yisra El. 7 At that blink, when I word concerning a goyim, and concerning a sovereigndom, to uproot - and to pull down - and to destroy 8 - if that goyim, against whom I word, turns from their evil, then I sigh of the evil I fabricate to work to them. 9 And at that blink, when I word concerning a goyim and concerning a kingdom - to build and to plant; 10 If it works evil in my eyes, that it hearkens not to my voice, then I sigh of the good wherewith I said I am well-pleased. 11 And now I beseech, speak to the men of Yah Hudah and to the settlers of Yeru Shalem, saying, Thus says Yah Veh; Behold, I form evil against you, and fabricate a fabrication against you: you, return I beseech - every man from his evil way, and well-please in your ways and your exploitations. 12 And they say, I quit! For we walk after our own fabrications, and each man works the warp of his evil heart. 13 So thus says Yah Veh; Ask I beseech you, among the goyim, Who ever heard such? The virgin of Yisra El works mighty horribly. 14 Ceases the snow of Lebanon from the rock of the field? Or are the strange cool flowing waters uprooted? 15 But my people forget me, they incense to vanity; and they have them falter in their ways from the eternal paths - to walk in paths - in a way not raised; 16 to set their land desolate - an eternal hissing; every one who passes by astonishes and wags his head. 17 I scatter them as with an east wind at the face of the enemy; I have them see the neck and not the face in the day of their calamity. 18 And they say, Come! We fabricate fabrications against Yirme Yah; for neither the torah destructs from the priest nor counsel from the wise nor the word from the prophet: Come, and smite him with the tongue, and hearken not to any of his words. 19 Hearken to me, O Yah Veh, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. 20 Shalam we evil for good? For they dig a chasm for my soul. Remember that I stood at your face to word good for them and to turn away your fury from them. 21 So give their sons to the famine and pour them by the hand of the sword; so that their women bereave and become widows; and their men become slaughtered; - their youths smitten by the sword in war. 22 Hear their cry from the houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them: for they dig a chasm to capture me and hide snares for my feet. 23 Yet, O Yah Veh, you know all their counsel against me - to execute me: neither kapar/atone their perversity nor wipe out their sin from your face; fell them at your face; work thus with them in the time of your wrath.