Jeremiah 18:6

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

“Can I not do with you, O house of Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Behold, like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter? says the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    O house{H1004} of Israel,{H3478} cannot{H3201} I do{H6213} with you as this potter?{H3335} saith{H5002} Jehovah.{H3068} Behold, as the clay{H2563} in the potter's{H3335} hand,{H3027} so are ye in my hand,{H3027} O house{H1004} of Israel.{H3478}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    O house{H1004} of Israel{H3478}, cannot{H3201}{(H8799)} I do{H6213}{(H8800)} with you as this potter{H3335}{(H8802)}? saith{H5002}{(H8803)} the LORD{H3068}. Behold, as the clay{H2563} is in the potter's{H3335}{(H8802)} hand{H3027}, so are ye in mine hand{H3027}, O house{H1004} of Israel{H3478}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Maye not I do wt you, as this Potter doth, O ye house off Israel? saieth the LORDE? Beholde, ye house off Israel: ye are in my honde, euen as the claye in the Potters honde.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    O house of Israel, cannot I doe with you as this potter, sayth the Lord? beholde, as the clay is in the potters hande, so are you in mine hande, O house of Israel.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    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.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    House of Israel, can't I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    As this potter am I not able to do to you? O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah. Lo, as clay in the hand of the potter, So `are' ye in My hand, O house of Israel.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    O Israel, am I not able to do with you as this potter does? says the Lord. See, like earth in the potter's hand are you in my hands, O Israel.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    House of Israel, can't I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    “I, the LORD, say:‘O nation of Israel, can I not deal with you as this potter deals with the clay? In my hands, you, O nation of Israel, are just like the clay in this potter’s hand.’

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 64:8 : 8 Do not be exceedingly angry, LORD, and do not remember our sins forever. Behold us, we are all your people.
  • Isa 45:9 : 9 Woe to those who strive with their Maker, like a piece of pottery among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 'Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?'
  • Jer 18:4 : 4 But the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, so he remade it into another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make.
  • Dan 4:23 : 23 The command to leave the stump with its roots means that your kingdom will be restored to you when you acknowledge that Heaven rules.
  • Rom 9:20-21 : 20 But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its maker, 'Why have you made me like this?' 21 Does not the potter have the right over the clay to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?
  • Rom 11:34 : 34 Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Jer 18:1-5
    5 verses
    88%

    1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying:

    2 “Rise and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear My words.”

    3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at the wheel.

    4 But the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, so he remade it into another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make.

    5 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

  • Jer 18:7
    78%

    7 At any moment I might speak concerning a nation or a kingdom, to uproot it, tear it down, or destroy it.

  • Isa 64:8
    78%

    8 Do not be exceedingly angry, LORD, and do not remember our sins forever. Behold us, we are all your people.

  • Isa 29:16
    77%

    16 You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, 'You did not make me'? Can the pot say to the potter, 'You know nothing'?

  • Rom 9:20-21
    2 verses
    77%

    20 But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its maker, 'Why have you made me like this?'

    21 Does not the potter have the right over the clay to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?

  • Isa 45:9
    76%

    9 Woe to those who strive with their Maker, like a piece of pottery among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?

  • Jer 19:11
    73%

    11 And say to them, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty says: I will break this people and this city as one breaks a potter’s jar that cannot be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury.’

  • Isa 30:14
    73%

    14 'Its collapse will be like that of a jar shattered into pieces so small that no fragment can be used to scoop fire from the hearth or draw water from a cistern.'

  • Ezek 22:14
    72%

    14 Will your heart stand firm? Will your hands be strong when I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it.

  • Jer 3:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19 I myself said, “How gladly would I treat you like my children and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.” I thought you would call me 'Father' and not turn away from following me.

    20 But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me,' declares the LORD.

  • Jer 10:1
    71%

    1 Hear the word that the Lord has spoken to you, O house of Israel.

  • Amos 6:14
    71%

    14 For behold, I am raising up against you, house of Israel—this is the declaration of the LORD, the God of Hosts—a nation that will oppress you from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.

  • Zech 11:13
    71%

    13 Then the LORD said to me, 'Throw it to the potter—the splendid price at which they valued me!' So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD to the potter.

  • Isa 51:16
    71%

    16 I have put My words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to lay the foundations of the earth, and to say to Zion, 'You are My people.'

  • Jer 2:4
    71%

    4 Hear the word of the LORD, house of Jacob, and all the clans of the house of Israel.

  • Jer 13:11
    71%

    11 For as the waistband clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me,' declares the LORD, 'to be my people, my renown, my praise, and my glory. But they would not listen.'

  • Acts 7:50
    70%

    50 Did not my hand make all these things?

  • Amos 4:12
    70%

    12 Therefore, this is what I will do to you, Israel, and because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel.

  • Jer 19:1
    70%

    1 This is what the LORD said: Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and of the priests with you.

  • Zech 12:1
    70%

    1 This is the Lord’s message concerning Israel. The Lord, who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit within humans, declares this:

  • Amos 9:7-9
    3 verses
    70%

    7 'Are you not like the Cushites to Me, O people of Israel?' declares the Lord. 'Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Arameans from Kir?'

    8 'Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet, I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,' declares the Lord.

    9 For behold, I am giving the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes a sieve, but not a single pebble shall fall to the ground.

  • Jer 10:17
    70%

    17 Gather up your belongings from the land, you who live under siege.

  • Isa 10:11
    70%

    11 shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Samaria and her images?

  • Amos 7:16
    70%

    16 Now therefore, hear the word of the Lord: You say, 'Do not prophesy against Israel and do not preach against the house of Isaac.'

  • Jer 30:11
    70%

    11 For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I completely destroy all the nations where I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you with justice but will not leave you entirely unpunished.

  • Isa 45:11
    70%

    11 This is what the LORD, the Holy One of Israel and its Maker, says: ‘Concerning things to come, ask me, and concerning my children and the work of my hands, you command me?’

  • Jer 7:14
    70%

    14 So I will do to the house that bears my name, in which you trust, and to the place I gave to you and your ancestors, just as I did to Shiloh.

  • Job 33:6
    70%

    6 Look, I am like you before God; I too was formed from clay.

  • Ezek 22:18
    70%

    18 Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead inside a furnace—they are the dross of silver.

  • Jer 15:6
    70%

    6 'You have rejected Me,' declares the LORD. 'You keep going backward. So I have stretched out My hand against you and destroyed you; I am tired of relenting.'

  • Jer 45:4
    70%

    4 The LORD said, 'This is what you are to say to him: Behold, what I have built I am tearing down, and what I have planted I am uprooting—the entire land.'

  • Mic 2:7
    70%

    7 House of Jacob, is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these His deeds? Do not my words do good to those who do right?

  • Amos 5:1
    69%

    1 Listen to this word that I am raising against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel.

  • Jer 27:21
    69%

    21 Yes, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about the articles that remain in the house of the LORD, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem:

  • Jer 5:11
    69%

    11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been thoroughly unfaithful to Me, declares the Lord.

  • Zech 10:6
    69%

    6 I will strengthen the house of Judah and save the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them, and it will be as though I had never rejected them. For I am the LORD their God, and I will answer them.

  • Lam 4:2
    69%

    2 The precious children of Zion, worth their weight in fine gold, how they are regarded as earthen vessels, the work of a potter's hands!

  • Jer 31:28
    69%

    28 Just as I watched over them to uproot, tear down, demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, declares the LORD.

  • Ezek 18:25
    69%

    25 Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Hear me, O house of Israel: Is my way unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?

  • Jer 9:7
    69%

    7 Their tongues are a sharpened arrow; deceit pours from their mouths. They speak peace to their neighbor, but in their hearts, they set up an ambush.

  • Ezek 18:29
    69%

    29 Yet the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Are my ways unjust, house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?

  • Jer 6:9
    69%

    9 This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Glean thoroughly the remnant of Israel as a vine; pass your hand over the branches like a grape gatherer.