1. The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
2. “Stand up and go down to the house of the potter, and there I will let you hear my words.”
3. So I went down to the house of the potter and look, there he was doing work at the potter’s wheels.
4. And the vessel that he was making with the clay was spoiled in the hand of the potter, so he made again another vessel, as it was right in the eyes of the potter to make.
5. And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
6. “Like this potter, am I not able to do to you, O house of Israel?” declares Yahweh. “Look, like the clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.
7. One moment I speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, to uproot, and to tear down, and to destroy it.
8. But if that nation turns back from its evil that I have threatened against it, then I will relent concerning the disaster that I planned to do to it.