5. Then the word of the Lord came to me:
6. “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.
7. If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it,
8. and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.
9. And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it,