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Book of Jeremiah, Chapter 18

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Chapter 18 of Jeremiah—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ The word that occurred to Jeremiah[a] from Jehovah, saying:
  2. “Rise up, and you must go down to the house of the potter,1 and there I shall cause you to hear my words.”
  3. ¶ And I proceeded to go down to the house of the potter, and there he was doing work upon the potter’s wheels.
  4. And the vessel that he was making with the clay was spoiled by the potter’s hand, and he turned back and went making it into another vessel, just as it looked right in the eyes of the potter[b] to make.2
  5. ¶ And the word of Jehovah continued to occur to me, saying:
  6. “‘Am I not able to do just like this potter to YOU people, O house of Israel?’ is the utterance of Jehovah. ‘Look! As the clay in the hand of the potter, so YOU are in my hand, O house of Israel.3
  7. At any moment that I may speak against a nation and against a kingdom to uproot [it] and to pull [it] down and to destroy [it],4
  8. and that nation actually turns back from its badness against which I spoke,5 I will also feel regret over the calamity that I had thought to execute upon it.6
  9. But at any moment that I may speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom to build [it] up and to plant [it],7
  10. and it actually does what is bad in my eyes by not obeying my voice,8 I will also feel regret over the good that I said [to myself] to do for its good.’
  11. ¶ “And now say, please, to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, ‘This is what Jehovah has said: “Here I am forming against YOU a calamity and thinking against YOU a thought.9 Turn back, please, each one from his bad way, and make YOUR ways and YOUR dealings good.”’”10
  12. ¶ And they said: “It is hopeless!11 For after our own thoughts we shall walk, and we are going to carry out each one the stubbornness of his bad heart.”12
  13. ¶ Therefore this is what Jehovah has said: “Ask for yourselves, please, among the nations. Who has heard things like these? There is a horrible thing that the virgin of Israel has done to an excess.13
  14. Will the snow of Lebʹa·non go away from the rock of the open field? Or will strange waters, cool, trickling, be dried up?
  15. For my people have forgotten me14 in that they make sacrificial smoke to something worthless,15 and in that they make men stumble in their ways,16 the paths of long ago,17 to walk in roadways, a way not banked up,
  16. in order to make their land an object of astonishment,18 for whistling at to time indefinite.19 Every last one passing along by it will stare in astonishment and shake his head.20
  17. As with an east wind I shall scatter them before the enemy.21 The back, and not the face,22 I shall show them in the day of their disaster.”
  18. ¶ And they proceeded to say: “Come, men, and let us think out against Jeremiah some thoughts,23 for the law will not perish from the priest24 or counsel from the wise one or the word from the prophet.25 Come and let us strike him with the tongue,26 and let us pay no attention to any of his words.”
  19. ¶ Do pay attention to me, O Jehovah, and listen to the voice of my opponents.[c]27
  20. Should bad be repaid for good?28 For they have excavated a pit for my soul.29 Remember my standing before you to speak good even concerning them, to turn back your rage from them.30
  21. Therefore give their sons over to the famine,31 and deliver them over to the power[d] of the sword;32 and may their wives become women bereaved of children, and widows.33 And may their own men become those killed with deadly plague, their young men those struck down with the sword in the battle.34
  22. Let a cry be heard out of their houses, when you bring upon them suddenly a marauder band.35 For they have excavated a pit to capture me, and traps they have hid for my feet.36
  23. ¶ But you yourself, O Jehovah, well know all their counsel against me for [my] death.37 Do not cover over[e] their error, and do not wipe out that sin of theirs from before you; but let them become those who are made to stumble before you.38 In the time of your anger take action against them.39

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ See 1:1 ftn, “Jeremiah.”
  2. ^ Lit., “former”; or, “one forming.” See vs 11.
  3. ^ Or, “contenders.” LXX, “pleading”; Sy, “oppression.”
  4. ^ Lit., “hands.”
  5. ^ Or, “Do not make atonement for.” Heb., ʼal-tekhap·perʹ.

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Je 19:1
  2. ^ Is 45:9; Ro 9:20
  3. ^ Ro 9:21
  4. ^ Je 1:10; 12:14; 25:9; 45:4; Am 9:8; Jon 3:4
  5. ^ 1Ki 8:33; Je 7:3; Eze 18:21; 33:11; Jon 3:5
  6. ^ Ps 106:45; Je 26:3; Jl 2:13; Jon 3:10; 4:2
  7. ^ Je 30:18; 32:41; Am 9:11
  8. ^ Ps 125:5
  9. ^ Je 26:3; Mc 2:3
  10. ^ 2Ki 17:13; Is 1:16; Je 7:3; 26:13; Eze 18:23; Ac 26:20
  11. ^ Je 2:25; Ro 2:5; Heb 3:13
  12. ^ De 29:19; Je 7:24
  13. ^ Je 2:13; 5:30
  14. ^ Je 2:19; 3:21; 13:25; 16:19; 17:13
  15. ^ De 32:21; Is 41:29; Je 10:15
  16. ^ Ml 2:8
  17. ^ Je 6:16
  18. ^ Le 26:33; Je 19:8; 49:13; Eze 6:14
  19. ^ De 29:24; 1Ki 9:8; La 2:15; Mc 6:16
  20. ^ De 28:37; Ps 44:14
  21. ^ Ps 48:7; Je 13:24
  22. ^ De 31:17; Je 2:27
  23. ^ Ps 21:11; Je 11:19
  24. ^ Le 10:11; Ml 2:7
  25. ^ 1Ki 22:24
  26. ^ Ps 52:2; Pr 18:21
  27. ^ 2Ki 19:16; Ne 4:4
  28. ^ Ps 109:5
  29. ^ Ps 35:7; 57:6; Ec 10:8
  30. ^ Ps 106:23; Eze 22:30
  31. ^ Ps 109:10; Je 11:22
  32. ^ Je 12:3
  33. ^ De 32:25; La 5:3
  34. ^ 2Ch 36:17; Je 9:21
  35. ^ Je 6:26
  36. ^ Ps 38:12; 64:5; 140:5
  37. ^ Ps 37:32; Je 11:19
  38. ^ Ps 35:4; 59:5; 109:14
  39. ^ Je 11:20; 15:15; Ro 2:5

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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