Jeremiah 18:6

Translations

Modern

“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.

Traditional

O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.

Literal

O house of Israel, “Can I not do to you as this potter? A declaration of YHWH. Behold, like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.

Latin

Numquid sicut figulus iste, non potero vobis facere, domus Israël? ait Dominus: ecce sicut lutum in manu figuli, sic vos in manu mea, domus Israël.

Original

Hebrew

English

“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.

Notes

Jeremiah 18:5–6

The Lord compared himself to this potter. He could set high standards and decide to destroy or reshape his creations.

Jeremiah 18:1–11

The Lord involved Jeremiah in a lesson using objects. What Jeremiah saw at the potter's shop symbolized what the Lord planned to do with Judah.

Theme notes and profiles

Jeremiah The Lord of Nations

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Isaiah 64:8
But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
Romans 9:20–21
But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”
Jeremiah 18:4
But 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.
Isaiah 45:9
Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
Matthew 20:15
Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
Daniel 4:23
And you, O king, saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying: ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump with its roots in the ground, with a band of iron and bronze around it, in the tender grass of the field. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and graze with the beasts of the field till seven times pass him by.’
Romans 11:34
“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”

People

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

Glossary

Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (Old Testament) Book of Jeremiah Jeremiah (Person) Pottery

Topics

Clay: Figurative God: Sovereign Government: Unclassified Scriptures Relating to God In Man: Compared to Clay in the Potter's Hand Nation: Chastised

Jeremiah 18:6

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