Verse 16

Doubtlesse your destruction is in reputation as the potters clay: And doth the worke say of hym that made it, he made not me? And doth an earthen vessell say of hym that fashioned it, he had no vnderstanding?

Referenced Verses

• Rom 9:19-21 : 19 Thou wylt say then vnto me: Why then blameth he vs yet? For who hath ben able to resist his wyll? 20 But O man, what art thou which disputest with God? Shall the worke say to the workeman, why hast thou made me on this fashion? 21 Hath not the potter power ouer the clay, euen of the same lumpe to make one vessel vnto honour, and another vnto dishonour?
• Ps 94:8-9 : 8 Understande ye vnwyse among the people: O ye fooles, when wyll ye be well aduised? 9 He that hath planted the eare, shall he not heare? yf he shapeth the eye, shall he not see?
• Isa 45:9-9 : 9 Wo be vnto hym that striueth with his maker, let the potsherde striue with the potsherdes of the earth: Saieth the clay to the potter, What makest thou? or, thy worke is not perfectly done. 10 Wo be vnto hym that saieth to his father, what begettest thou? and to his mother, what bearest thou? 11 Thus saith the Lorde, euen the holy one and maker of Israel: Aske me of thinges for to come concerning my sonnes, and put me in remembraunce as touching the workes of my handes.
• Isa 64:8 : 8 But nowe, O Lorde, thou father of ours, we are thy clay, and thou art our potter, and we all are the worke of thy handes.
• Jer 18:1-9 : 1 This is another communication that God had with Ieremie, saying: 2 Arise, and go downe into the potters house, & there shal I tell thee more of my mynde, 3 Nowe when I came to the potters house, I founde hym makyng his worke vpon a wheele. 4 The vessell that the potter made of clay, brake among his handes: So he began a newe, and made another vessell accordyng to his mynde. 5 Then sayde the Lorde thus vnto me: 6 May not I do with you as this potter doth O ye house of Israel saith the Lorde? Beholde ye house of Israel, ye are in my hande, euen as the clay is in the potters hande. 7 When I take in hande to roote out, to destroy, or to waste away any people or kyngdome: 8 If that people agaynst whom I haue thus deuised, conuert from their wickednesse, I repent of the plague that I deuised to bryng vpon them. 9 Agayne, when I take in hande to builde or to plant a people or a kyngdome: 10 If the same people do euyll before me and heare not my voyce, I repent of the good that I haue deuised for them.
• Acts 17:6 : 6 And when they founde them not, they drewe Iason and certaine brethren vnto the heades of the citie, crying: these that trouble the world, are come hyther also,
• Isa 24:1 : 1 Beholde, the Lord maketh the earth waste and emptie, he turneth it vpside downe, and scattereth abrode the inhabitours therof.