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Jeremiah 18:6 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 18 · verse 6
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.Jeremiah 18:6 · King James Version
Jeremiah 18:6 in context
4And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
5Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
6O 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.
7At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
8If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
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Key words (Strong's)
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- cannotyâkôlto be able, literally or morallyH3201 →
- potteryâtsarto mould into a formH3335 →
- housebayitha houseH1004 →
- saithnᵉʼuman oracleH5002 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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The prophet is here sent to the potter's house (he knew where to find it), not to preach a sermon as before to the gates of Jerusalem, but to prepare a sermon, or rather to receive it ready prepared. Those needed not to study their sermons that had them, as he had this, by immediate inspiration.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-10