Jeremiah 18

Jeremiah 18:14

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?

Will any man be so foolish, as, when he may make use of the pure snow of mount Lebanon, which he may take up from the clean rock of his own field, to seek afar off for some dirty puddle? or, when he may have the cool flowing waters from his own crystal spring, to go lade out of the muddy channel?

Jeremiah 18:17

I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

I will not so much as look at them, in their distress; but turn my back upon them, as they have done upon me.

Jeremiah 18:18

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, &c.

Let us lay a plot for Jeremiah: he is a false prophet, doubtless; for, whatsoever he saith, it cannot be, that God should utterly take his law from the priest, or his counsel from the wise, or his word from the prophets; but so he hath done, so he shall do, if this man may be heard. Come; let us raise slanders and accusations against him, &c.