The Potter and the Clay
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: “Go down at once to the potter’s house, and there I will reveal My message to you.” Heb 1:1Act 9:6Jer 19:1-2Jer 23:22Amo 7:7Ezk 4:1-5Isa 20:2Jer 13:1
So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the wheel. Jhn 15:14Act 26:19Jon 1:3 But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do. Rom 9:20-23Jer 18:6Isa 45:9
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel. Isa 64:8Rom 9:20-21Isa 45:9Jer 18:4Mat 20:15Dan 4:23Rom 11:34
At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed. Jer 1:10Jer 12:14-17Jer 45:4Amo 9:8Jer 25:9-14Jon 3:4 But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring. Ezk 18:21Jer 26:13Hos 11:8Jon 3:9-10Jer 26:3Amo 7:3-6Jdg 2:18Jol 2:13-14
And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom, Jer 31:28Amo 9:11-15Jer 1:10Jer 11:17Ecc 3:2Jer 30:18Jer 31:38Jer 31:4 and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it. 1Sa 2:30Ezk 33:181Sa 13:13Ezk 18:241Sa 15:11Psa 125:51Sa 15:35Jer 7:23-28
Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.’ 2Ki 17:13Isa 55:6-7Isa 1:16-19Jer 35:15Jer 7:3Jer 25:5Act 26:20Jas 5:1
But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’” Jer 2:25Deu 29:19Jer 16:12Jer 7:24Isa 57:10Gen 8:21Jer 3:17Luk 1:51
Therefore this is what the LORD says: Jer 5:30Hos 6:10Isa 66:8Jer 2:10-13Jer 23:14Jer 14:17Jer 31:41Co 5:1
“Inquire among the nations:
Who has ever heard things like these?
Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing.
Does the snow of Lebanon Jhn 6:68
ever leave its rocky slopes?
Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance
ever run dry?
Yet My people have forgotten Me. Jer 6:16Jer 2:32Hos 11:2Isa 57:14Jer 2:13Mal 2:8Isa 41:29Jer 10:15
They burn incense to worthless idols
that make them stumble in their ways,
leaving the ancient roads
to walk on rutted bypaths
instead of on the highway.
They have made their land a desolation, Psa 22:7Jer 25:9Jer 19:81Ki 9:8Ezk 33:28-29Jer 49:13Jer 50:13Mat 27:39
a perpetual object of scorn;
all who pass by will be appalled
and shake their heads.
I will scatter them before the enemy Jer 13:24Jer 2:27Hos 13:15Job 27:21Psa 48:7Jer 32:33Jer 46:21Deu 28:25
like the east wind.
I will show them My back and not My face
in the day of their calamity.”
Another Plot against Jeremiah
(Jeremiah 11:18–23)
Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.” Psa 52:2Jer 11:19Mal 2:7Jer 13:13-14Jer 18:11Jer 5:12-13Mic 2:1-3Pro 18:21
Attend to me, O LORD. Neh 6:9Jer 20:12Mic 7:8Psa 109:28Psa 55:16-172Ki 19:16Luk 6:11-12Neh 4:4-5
Hear what my accusers are saying!
Should good be repaid with evil? Psa 35:7Psa 57:6Psa 106:231Sa 24:17-19Psa 35:12Ecc 10:8Jer 18:22Pro 26:27
Yet they have dug a pit for me.
Remember how I stood before You
to speak good on their behalf,
to turn Your wrath from them.
Therefore, hand their children over to famine; Psa 109:9-20Amo 4:10Deu 32:25Exo 22:24Jer 15:8Jer 16:3-4Jer 9:21Lam 5:3
pour out the power of the sword upon them.
Let their wives become childless and widowed;
let their husbands be slain by disease,
their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
Let a cry be heard from their houses Jer 6:26Psa 140:5Jer 25:34-36Zep 1:10-11Isa 10:30Psa 56:5-7Zep 1:16Isa 22:1-4
when You suddenly bring raiders against them,
for they have dug a pit to capture me
and have hidden snares for my feet.
But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Psa 35:4Psa 69:22-28Isa 2:9Neh 4:4-5Psa 109:14-15Isa 10:3Jer 11:18-20Jer 11:23
Do not wipe out their guilt
or blot out their sin from Your sight.
Let them be overthrown before You;
deal with them in the time of Your anger.