"And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart."
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Verse Jeremiah 18:12. _THERE IS NO HOPE_] See Jeremiah 2:25....
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AND THEY SAID - Better, But they say.
IMAGINATION - Or, stubbornness, see Jeremiah 3:17....
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CHAPTER 18
The Potter and the Clay
_ 1. In the potter's house and the message (Jeremiah 18:1) _
2. The plot against the prophet and his prayer (Jeremiah 18:18)
Jeremiah 18:1. He was commanded to go...
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THE POTTER AND THE CLAY. The potter (Jeremiah 18:1) moulding his clay
on the upper stone, which he makes revolve by his feet resting on the
connected lower stone, is compared with Yahweh in His contro...
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IMAGINATION. stubbornness....
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_no hope_ It is too late to turn back now. See on Jeremiah 2:25.
_stubbornness_ Cp. ch. Jeremiah 3:17....
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C. The Proclamation to the People Jeremiah 18:11-12
TRANSLATION
(11) And now speak please unto the men of Judah and unto the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the LORD! Behold, I am
about...
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And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own
devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
THEY SAID, THERE IS NO HOPE - thy threats and exhortations are...
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1-17. Figure of the potter's clay....
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AND THEY SAID. — Better, _But they say,_ as of continued action.
This was the ever-recurring answer (see Note on Jeremiah 2:25) which
they made to the prophet’s pleas. It was the answer of defiance
ra...
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וְ אָמְר֖וּ נֹואָ֑שׁ כִּֽי ־אַחֲרֵ֤י
מַחְשְׁבֹותֵ֨ינוּ֙ נֵלֵ֔ךְ וְ אִ֛ישׁ
שְׁרִר֥וּת לִבֹּֽו ־הָ רָ֖ע נַעֲשֶֽׂה
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CHAPTER XI
THE DIVINE POTTER
Jeremiah 18:1
JEREMIAH goes down into the Lower Town, or the valley between the
upper and lower city; and there his attention is arrested by a potter
sitting at work be...
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We now come to the second series of messages before the fall of
Jerusalem (18-20), which consists of declarations of God's absolute
supremacy. In preparation for this, Jeremiah was sent to the house o...
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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 rebell...
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_Hopes. Chap. ii. 25. Septuagint, "we are valiant men." (Haydock)_...
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The Lord himself explains and applies his type of the Potter. And in
Jesus how hath the doctrine been fully proved? Surely the Lord can
with infinitely more ease create new hearts in his people, and r...
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The Prophet, having related that he had denounced on the Jews the
vengeance of God, adds now, how proudly they despised his
threatenings. And their sin was on this account enhanced, because a
hope of...
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In chapter 18 this principle is fully demonstrated before the people
(Jeremiah 18:1-10). But the people in despair as to God, in the midst
of their boldness in evil and in contempt of His marvellous p...
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AND THEY SAID, THERE IS NO HOPE,.... Or, "but they said" w; not that
there was no hope of the grace and mercy of God, upon their repentance
and reformation, for that is before declared; but that they...
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And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own
devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
Ver. 12. _And they said, There is no hope._] _a_ See the like
desp...
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_Now therefore speak to the men of Judah_ The Lord now commands his
prophet to make a particular application of the more general doctrine
which he had before delivered. _Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I...
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THE PARABLE FURTHER APPLIED...
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11-17 Sinners call it liberty to live at large; whereas for a man to
be a slave to his lusts, is the very worst slavery. They forsook God
for idols. When men are parched with heat, and meet with cooli...
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THERE IS NO HOPE of us, thou dost but labour in vain in talking to us;
for we are resolved to run on in our former race. It cannot be
imagined that they should call the imaginations of their own heart...
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Jeremiah 18:12 said H559 (H8804) hopeless H2976 (H8737) walk H3212
(H8799) according H310 plans H4284 one H376 obey H6213 (H8799)
dictates H8307 evil H7451 heart H3820
There - Jeremiah 2:25; 2 Kings...
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BECAUSE OF THEIR REFUSAL TO RESPOND TO HIS ‘SHAPING' HE WILL NOW
‘SHAPE' EVIL AGAINST THEM UNLESS THEY NOW REPENT. HIS OFFER BEING
TURNED DOWN GOD CALLS ON THE NATIONS TO BE ASTONISHED WITNESSES OF
TH...
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CONTENTS: Sign of the potter's house. Declaration of God's ways of
dealing with nations. Jeremiah's complaint.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Jehovah has incontestable and irresistible abili...
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Jeremiah 18:6. _As the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in my
hand._ The sense is given in the next words; the exaltation, or the
degradation of a nation, is wholly with the Lord. If they, unde...
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_There is no hope._
HOPE, YET NO HOPE-NO HOPE, YET HOPE
There are two phases in spiritual life which well illustrate the
deceitfulness of the heart. The first is that described in my first
text (Isai...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Early
in Jehoiakim’s reign (See _Chronological Note_ on Section 19–27 of
previous chapter). Probably about two years later than that messag...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter is the introduction of a group of prophecies (extending
to Jeremiah 25:1.) of various dates; their sequence has evidently not
been determined by chronological considerations. T...
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Now in chapter 18:
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Arise, and go
down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my
words. Then I went down to the potter's hous...
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2 Kings 6:33; Deuteronomy 29:19; Ezekiel 37:11; Genesis 6:5; Genesis
8:21; Isaiah 57:10; Jeremiah 11:8; Jeremiah 16:12; Jeremiah 2:25;...