1. The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying:
2. “Arise and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear My words.”
3. Then I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, making something at the wheel.
4. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter; so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make.
5. Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
6. “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter?” says the Lord. “Look, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel!
7. The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it,
8. if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it.