Say to them, Thus says the Lord God, the Prince and the Ruler in Israel, even to all the house of Israel who are in the midst of them:

And the prince in the midst of them shall be borne upon shoulders, and shall go forth in secret through the wall, and shall dig, so that he may go forth thereby; he shall cover his face, so that he may not be seen by [anyone], and he himself shall not see the ground.

And you, son of man, take a brick, and set it before your face, and portray on it the city, [even] Jerusalem.

And take to yourself an iron pan, and you shall set it [for] an iron wall between you and the city. And you shall set your face against it, and it shall be in a siege, and you shall besiege it. This is a sign to the children of Israel.

For I have appointed you their iniquities for a number of days, for a hundred and ninety days: so you shall bear the iniquities of the house of Israel.

So you shall set your face to the siege of Jerusalem, and shall strengthen your arm, and shall prophesy against it.

Take also wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and grain; and you shall cast them into one earthen vessel, and shall make them into loaves for yourself; and you shall eat them a hundred and ninety days, according to the number of the days which you sleep on your side.

And you shall drink water by measure, even from time to time you shall drink the sixth part of a hin.

And you shall say, Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Thus shall the children of Israel eat unclean things among the Gentiles.

And He said to me, Behold, I have given you dung of oxen instead of man's dung, and you shall prepare your loaves upon it.

that they may want bread and water; and a man and his brother shall be brought to ruin, and they shall pine away in their iniquities.

Thus says the Lord: Go and procure for yourself a linen sash, and put it around your waist, but do not put it in water.

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me.

So I went to the river Euphrates, and dug, and took the sash out of the place where I had buried it. And behold, it was ruined, utterly good for nothing.

Thus will I ruin the pride of Judah, and the pride of Jerusalem;

For as a sash clings about the waist of a man, so have I caused the house of Israel, and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me; that they might be to Me a famous people, and a praise, and a glory. But they did not hearken to Me.

Jeremiah, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there you shall hear My words.

And the vessel which he was making with his hands fell [apart.] So he made it into another vessel, as it seemed good to him.

O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter? Behold, as the clay [is in] the potter's[hand], so are you in My hands.

and that nation turn from all their sins, then will I relent of the disasters which I purposed to do to them.

and they do evil before Me, so as not to heed My voice, then will I relent of the good which I spoke of, to do it to them.

And they said, We will quit ourselves like men, for we will pursue our perverse ways, and we will perform each the lusts of his evil heart.

Then the Lord said to me, Go and get an earthen bottle, the work of the potter, and you shall bring [some] of the elders of the people, and of the priests.

And you shall say to them, Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and men of Judah, and the dwellers in Jerusalem, and they that enter in by these gates. Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Behold, I [will] bring such a catastrophe upon this place, that the ears of everyone that hears it shall tingle.

and built high places for Baal, to burn their children in the fire, which things I commanded not, neither did I design [them] in My heart.

And I will destroy the counsel of Judah and the counsel of Jerusalem in this place; and I will cast them down with the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives. And I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth.

And they shall eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat, everyone the flesh of his neighbor in the blockade, and in the siege with which their enemies shall besiege them.

and you shall say, Thus says the Lord, Thus will I break in pieces this people, and this city, even as an earthen vessel is broken in pieces which cannot be mended again.

And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be as a ruinous place, because of their uncleanness in all the houses, in which they burnt incense upon their roofs to all the host of heaven, and poured [out] drink offerings to strange gods.

Behold I bring upon this city, and upon all the cities belonging to it, and upon the villages of it, all the doom which I have spoken against it, because they have hardened their neck, [that they might not] hearken to My commands.

Thus said the Lord: Make for yourself bonds and yokes, and put [them] about your neck,

Say to them, Thus says the Lord: [As] I live, I desire not the death of the ungodly, as that the ungodly should turn from his way and live: turn heartily from your way; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

O that there were such a heart in them, that they should fear Me, and keep My commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their sons forever!

They had not sense to understand; let them reserve these things against the time to come.

If My people had hearkened to Me, if Israel had walked in My ways,

And now, say to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Behold, I prepare disasters against you, and devise a plan against you: let everyone turn now from his evil way, and amend your practices.

and I sent to you My servants the prophets, sending them early; (but you would not listen, nor incline your ear to hear) saying,

Do not go after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them, lest you provoke Me by the works of your hands, to do you harm.

Perhaps they will listen, and turn from their evil ways; then I will cease from the evils which I purpose to do to them, because of their evil practices.

Perhaps the house of Judah will hear all the evils which I purpose to do to them; that they may turn from their evil way; and [so] I will be merciful to their iniquities and their sins.

Perhaps their supplication will come before the Lord, and they will turn from their evil way; for great is the wrath and the anger of the Lord, which He has pronounced against this people.

But he answered and said to him, 'Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

And if it produces fruit, [fine]. But if not, in the coming [year], you can cut it down.'"

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen [gathers] her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. Perhaps when they see him they will respect [him].'

in meekness instructing those that oppose, if God perhaps may give them repentance, to a full knowledge of the truth,