Jeremiah 18:3

The Potter and the Clay

1 The 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.”

3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, making something at the¹ wheel.

4 And the vessel that he¹ made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter; so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make.

5 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Jeremiah 18:3

He wrought a work on the wheels - al haabnayim , upon the stones, the potter' s wheel being usually made of such, the spindle of the moving stone being placed on a stone below, on which it turned, and supported the stone above, on which the vessel was manufactured, and which alone had a rotatory motion. The potter' s wheel in the present day seems to differ very little from that which was in use between two and three thousand years ago.

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