Jeremiah 18:9
King James Version
“And instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant”
Context
6O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
7instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy
8If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
9And instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant
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.
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.
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.