Jeremiah 18:1–9
1The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,↗
2“Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.”↗
3Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making something on the wheels.↗
4When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.↗
5Then the LORD’s word came to me, saying,↗
6“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says the LORD. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.↗
7At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it,↗
8if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.↗
9At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it,↗
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