And the vessel that he made of (a) clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make [it]. (a) As the potter has power over the clay to make what pot he will, or to break them, when he has made them: so have I power over you to do... [ Continue Reading ]
If that nation, against which I have pronounced, shall turn from their evil, I will (b) repent of the evil that I thought to do to them. (b) When the Scripture attributes repentance to God, it is not that he does contrary to that which he has ordained in his secret counsel: but when he threatens it... [ Continue Reading ]
And they said, (c) There is no hope: but we will walk after our own plots, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. (c) As men who had no remorse but were altogether bent to rebellion and to their own selfwill.... [ Continue Reading ]
Will [a man] leave the snow of Lebanon [which cometh] from the rock of the field? (d) [or] shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken? (d) As no man that has thirst refuses fresh waters which he has at home, to go and seek waters abroad to quench his thirst: so they shou... [ Continue Reading ]
Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways [from] the (e) ancient paths, to walk in paths, [in] a way not cast up; (e) That is, the way of truth which God had taught by his law, (Jeremiah 6:16).... [ Continue Reading ]
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and (f) not the face, in the day of their calamity. (f) I will show my anger and not my favour toward them.... [ Continue Reading ]
said they, Come, and let us devise plots against Jeremiah; for the law (g) shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the (h) tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. (g) This argument the wicked have alway... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore (i) deliver their children to the famine, and pour out their [blood] by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and [be] widows; and let their men be put to death; [let] their young men [be] slain by the sword in battle. (i) Seeing the obstinate malice o... [ Continue Reading ]