Jeremiah 18:2-12

2 “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.”
3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel.
4 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.
5 Then the word of the LORD came to me.
6 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.
7 If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed,
8 and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.
9 And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted,
10 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.
11 “Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, ‘This is what the LORD says: Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions.’
12 But they will reply, ‘It’s no use. We will continue with our own plans; we will all follow the stubbornness of our evil hearts.’ ”

Cross References 16

  • 1. S Isaiah 29:16; Isaiah 45:9; Romans 9:20-21
  • 2. S Genesis 2:7
  • 3. Jeremiah 1:10
  • 4. S Exodus 32:14; Psalms 25:11; Jeremiah 26:13; Jeremiah 36:3; John 3:8-10
  • 5. Jeremiah 31:28; Jeremiah 42:10; Daniel 9:14; Ezekiel 18:21; Hosea 11:8-9; Joel 2:13; John 4:2
  • 6. Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 31:28
  • 7. Ezekiel 33:18
  • 8. 1 Samuel 2:29-30; 1 Samuel 13:13
  • 9. S Jeremiah 1:10
  • 10. S 2 Kings 22:16; S Jeremiah 4:6
  • 11. ver 18
  • 12. S Deuteronomy 4:30; S 2 Kings 17:13; Isaiah 1:16-19
  • 13. S Jeremiah 7:3
  • 14. S Job 16:17
  • 15. S Isaiah 57:10; Jeremiah 2:25
  • 16. S Jeremiah 3:17
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