예레미야 18장 Contemporary English Version (2006)

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1	Jeremiah Goes to the Pottery Shop The Lord told me,	The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
2	“Jeremiah, go to the pottery shop, and when you get there, I will tell you what to say to the people.”	Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
3	I went there and saw the potter making clay pots on his pottery wheel.	Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
4	And whenever the clay would not take the shape he wanted, he would change his mind and form it into some other shape.	And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
5	Then the Lord told me to say:	Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
6	People of Israel, I, the Lord, have power over you, just as a potter has power over clay.	O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
7	If I threaten to uproot and shatter an evil nation,	At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
8	and that nation turns from its evil, I will change my mind.	If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
9	If I promise to make a nation strong,	And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
10	but its people start disobeying me and doing evil, then I will change my mind and not help them at all.	If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
11	So listen to me, people of Judah and Jerusalem! I have decided to strike you with disaster, and I won't change my mind unless you stop sinning and start living right.	Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
12	But I know you won't listen. You might as well answer, “We don't care what you say. We have made plans to sin, and we are going to be stubborn and do as we please!”	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.
13	So I, the Lord, command you to ask the nations, and find out if they have ever heard of such a horrible sin as what you have done.	Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
14	The snow on Lebanon's mountains never melts away, and the streams there never run dry.	Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?
15	But you, my people, have turned from me to burn incense to worthless idols. You have left the ancient road to follow an unknown path where you stumble over idols.	Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
16	Your land will be ruined, and every passerby will look at it with horror and make insulting remarks.	To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
17	When your enemies attack, I will scatter you like dust blown by an eastern wind. Then, on that day of disaster, I will turn my back on you.	I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
18	The Plot against Jeremiah Some of the people said, “Let's get rid of Jeremiah! We will always have priests to teach us God's laws, as well as wise people to give us advice, and prophets to speak the Lord's messages. So, instead of listening to Jeremiah any longer, let's accuse him of a crime.”	Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law 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 tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
19	Jeremiah Prays about His Enemies Please, Lord, answer my prayer. Make my enemies stop accusing me of evil.	Give heed to me, O Lord, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
20	I tried to help them, but they are paying me back by digging a pit to trap me. I even begged you not to punish them.	Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
21	But now I am asking you to let their children starve or be killed in war. Let women lose their husbands and sons to disease and violence.	Therefore deliver up 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.
22	These people have dug pits and set traps for me, Lord. Make them scream in fear when you send enemy troops to attack their homes.	Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
23	You know they plan to kill me. So get angry and punish them! Don't ever forgive their terrible crimes.	Yet, Lord, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.