Jeremiah 18: the potter works his clay, getting rid of what is not good

 In Jeremiah 18 we read:

5-10 Then God’s Message came to me: “Can’t I do just as this potter does, people of Israel?” God’s Decree! “Watch this potter. In the same way that this potter works his clay, I work on you, people of Israel. At any moment I may decide to pull up a people or a country by the roots and get rid of them. But if they repent of their wicked lives, I will think twice and start over with them. At another time I might decide to plant a people or country, but if they don’t cooperate and won’t listen to me, I will think again and give up on the plans I had for them.

11 “So, tell the people of Judah and citizens of Jerusalem my Message: ‘Danger! I’m shaping doom against you, laying plans against you. Turn back from your doomed way of life. Straighten out your lives.’

12 “But they’ll just say, ‘Why should we? What’s the point? We’ll live just the way we’ve always lived, doom or no doom.’”

The Lord asks Israel to repent but they just want to live as always have lived, doom or no doom.

Jeremiah talks against idolatry:

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For My people have forgotten Me,
They burn incense [e]to worthless gods.
And they [f]have stumbled in their ways,
In the ancient roads,
To walk on paths,
Not on a highway,

However, instead of repentance, they devised plans against Jeremiah. In their opinion, there are other ways to listen to the Law:

18 Then they said, “Come and let’s devise plans against Jeremiah. Certainly the Law is not going to be lost by the priest, nor advice by the wise, nor the divine word by the prophet! Come, and let’s strike at him with our tongue, and let’s pay no attention to any of his words.”

Jeremiah cursed his opponents with the opposite of the Aram blessing:

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Like an east wind I will scatter them
Before the enemy;
I will [g]show them My back and not My face
In the day of their disaster.’”