Jeremiah 18:2
House - i. e., workshop. The clay-field where the potters exercised their craft lay to the south of Jerusalem just beyond the valley of Hinnom. Compare Zechariah 11:13; Matthew 27:10.
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:
6 “O house of Israel, acan I not do with you as this potter?” says the Lord. “Look, bas the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel!
7 The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to apluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it,
8 aif that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, bI will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it.
9 And the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it,
10 if it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice, then I will relent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it.
11 “Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Behold, I am fashioning a disaster and devising a plan against you. aReturn now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings bgood.” ’ ”
God’s Warning Rejected
12 And they said, a“That is hopeless! So we will walk according to our own plans, and we will every one1 obey the bdictates of his evil heart.”
13 Therefore thus says the Lord:
a“Ask now among the Gentiles,
Who has heard such things?
The virgin of Israel has done ba very horrible thing.
a“Ask now among the Gentiles,
Who has heard such things?
The virgin of Israel has done ba very horrible thing.
14 Will a man1 leave the snow water of Lebanon,
Which comes from the rock of the field?
Will the cold flowing waters be forsaken for strange waters?
Which comes from the rock of the field?
Will the cold flowing waters be forsaken for strange waters?
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