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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and I go down [to] the potter's house, and lo, he is doing a work on the stones,
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and marred is the vessel that he is making, as clay in the hand of the potter, and he hath turned and he maketh it another vessel, as it was right in the eyes of the potter to make.
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As this potter am I not able to do to you? O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah. Lo, as clay in the hand of the potter, So [are] ye in My hand, O house of Israel.
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The moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, To pluck up and to break down, and to destroy,
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