Jeremiah 18

1 [the] word which to be to(wards) Jeremiah from with LORD to/for to say

The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

2 to arise: rise and to go down house: home [the] to form: potter and there [to] to hear: hear you [obj] word my

“Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.”

3 and to go down house: home [the] to form: potter (and behold he/she/it *Q(K)*) to make: [do] work upon [the] wheel

Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making something on the wheels.

4 and to ruin [the] article/utensil which he/she/it to make in/on/with clay in/on/with hand [the] to form: potter and to return: again and to make him article/utensil another like/as as which to smooth in/on/with eye: appearance [the] to form: potter to/for to make: do

When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

5 and to be word LORD to(wards) me to/for to say

Then the LORD’s word came to me, saying,

6 like/as to form: potter [the] this not be able to/for to make: do to/for you house: household Israel utterance LORD behold like/as clay in/on/with hand [the] to form: potter so you(m. p.) in/on/with hand my house: household Israel

“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says the LORD. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

7 moment to speak: promise upon nation and upon kingdom to/for to uproot and to/for to tear and to/for to perish

At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it,

8 and to return: turn back [the] nation [the] he/she/it from distress: evil his which to speak: speak upon him and to be sorry: relent upon [the] distress: harm which to devise: devise to/for to make: do to/for him

if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

9 and moment to speak: promise upon nation and upon kingdom to/for to build and to/for to plant

At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it,

10 and to make: do ([the] bad: evil *Q(K)*) in/on/with eye: seeing my to/for lest to hear: hear in/on/with voice my and to be sorry: relent upon [the] welfare which to say to/for be good [obj] him

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

11 and now to say please to(wards) man: anyone Judah and upon to dwell Jerusalem to/for to say thus to say LORD behold I to form: plan upon you distress: harm and to devise: devise upon you plot to return: return please man: anyone from way: conduct his [the] bad: evil and be good way: conduct your and deed your

“Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘The LORD says: “Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you. Everyone return from his evil way now, and amend your ways and your doings.”’

12 and to say to despair for after plot our to go: follow and man: anyone stubbornness heart his [the] bad: evil to make: do

But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

13 to/for so thus to say LORD to ask please in/on/with nation who? to hear: hear like/as these horror to make: do much virgin Israel

Therefore the LORD says: “Ask now amongst the nations, ‘Who has heard such things?’ The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.

14 to leave: forsake from rock Sirion snow Lebanon if: surely yes to uproot water be a stranger cool to flow

Will the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? Will the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?

15 for to forget me people my to/for vanity: vain to offer: offer and to stumble them in/on/with way: road their path forever: antiquity to/for to go: walk path way: road not to build

For my people have forgotten me. They have burnt incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up,

16 to/for to set: make land: country/planet their to/for horror: appalled (piping *Q(K)*) forever: enduring all to pass upon her be desolate: appalled and to wander in/on/with head his

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.

17 like/as spirit: breath east to scatter them to/for face: before enemy neck and not face to see: see them in/on/with day calamity their

I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

18 and to say to go: come! and to devise: devise upon Jeremiah plot for not to perish instruction from priest and counsel from wise and word from prophet to go: come! and to smite him in/on/with tongue and not to listen to(wards) all word his

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

19 to listen [emph?] LORD to(wards) me and to hear: hear to/for voice opponent my

Give heed to me, LORD, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.

20 to complete underneath: instead welfare distress: evil for to pierce pit to/for soul: life my to remember to stand: stand I to/for face: before your to/for to speak: speak upon them welfare to/for to return: turn back [obj] rage your from them

Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

21 to/for so to give: give [obj] son: child their to/for famine and to pour them upon hand: power sword and to be woman: wife their childless and widow and human their to be to kill death youth their to smite sword in/on/with battle

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows. Let their men be killed and their young men struck by the sword in battle.

22 to hear: hear outcry from house: home their for to come (in): bring upon them band suddenly for to pierce (pit *Q(K)*) to/for to capture me and snare to hide to/for foot my

Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.

23 and you(m. s.) LORD to know [obj] all counsel their upon me to/for death not to atone upon iniquity: crime their and sin their from to/for face: before your not to wipe (and to be *Q(K)*) to stumble to/for face: before your in/on/with time face: anger your to make: do in/on/with them

Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don’t forgive their iniquity. Don’t blot out their sin from your sight, Let them be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger.