Wednesday in Season after Pentecost

1Verse 1. “Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn. 2Verse 2. Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him. 3Verse 3. For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.

1Verse 1. This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 2Verse 2. “Go down at once to the potter’s house, and there I will give you My message.” 3Verse 3. So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the wheel. 4Verse 4. But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do. 5Verse 5. Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 6Verse 6. “O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel. 7Verse 7. At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed. 8Verse 8. But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring. 9Verse 9. And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom, 10Verse 10. and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it. 11Verse 11. Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.’