At the Potter’s House
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“Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.”
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So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel.
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But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
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Then the word of the LORD came to me.
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He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the LORD. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel.
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If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed,
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and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.
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And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted,
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and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.