Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying. ] While he was in the potter's house, and after he had observed his manner of working, and the change he had made in his work, the Lord spoke to him, and applied it in the following manner.
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Then I went down to the potter's house, and there he was, making something on the wheel.
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But the vessel that he was making of clay was spoiled in the hand of the potter; so he remade it into another vessel, as it pleased the potter to make.
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"Can I not, O house of Israel, deal with you as this potter does?" declares the LORD . "Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
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"At one moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to uproot, to pull down, or to destroy it;