Jeremiah 18:11
“I affirm that "wickedness" in this context does not signify something that can be referred to the Creator's nature, as though he were evil, but to his authority, because he is a judge. It was in view of this that he declared, "It is I who create evils," and, "Behold, I send evils against you." These are not evils of i…”
11Now 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.
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9And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
10If 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.
— Jeremiah 18:11 —
12And 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.
13Therefore 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.