Down to the potter's house, where a marred vessel is simply made again as it seemed good to the potter: 'as the clay in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel' (18:6).

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Down to the potter's house, where a marred vessel is simply made again as it seemed good to the potter: 'as the clay in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel' (18:6). The lesson is not fatalism but responsiveness: if a nation I threatened turns from its evil, I repent of the evil; if a nation I promised to build does evil, I repent of the good. Judah answers, There is no hope; we will walk after our own devices. Does snow forsake Lebanon? Yet my people have forgotten me. The chapter closes with the plot ('let us smite him with the tongue') and the prophet's raw appeal for justice.

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

Prophecy · Jeremiah — Jeremiah overview

A. 1–12 The Potter's House: Marred Clay Made Again
B. 13–17 The Snow of Lebanon Forsaken; Stumbling in Bypaths
C. 18–23 Come, Let Us Smite Him with the Tongue

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Jeremiah 23 verses
- Jeremiah 2:25You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’
- Jeremiah 2:27say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me and not their faces, yet in the time of trouble they beg, ‘Rise up and save us!’
- Jeremiah 2:32Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.
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Jeremiah 182 verses
- Jeremiah 18:4But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.
- Jeremiah 18:6“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
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Jeremiah 162 verses
- Jeremiah 16:3For this is what the LORD says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered them in this land:
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Jeremiah 62 verses
- Jeremiah 6:16This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’
- Jeremiah 6:26O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
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- Jeremiah 25:9behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
- Jeremiah 25:34Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter have come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery.
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Psalms 1092 verses
- Psalms 109:9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
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Psalms 352 verses
- Psalms 35:4May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plan to harm me be driven back and confounded.
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Romans 91 verse
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Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.