Jeremiah 18:6

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.

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  • Isa 64:8 : 8 But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
  • Isa 45:9 : 9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him who forms it, What are you making? or shall your work say, He has no hands?
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Is your eye evil, because I am good?
  • Jer 18:4 : 4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again into another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
  • Dan 4:23 : 23 And as the king saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, 'Cut the tree down and destroy it; yet leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him.
  • Rom 9:20-21 : 20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him who formed it, Why have you made me like this? 21 Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?
  • Rom 11:34 : 34 For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?

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    1The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

    2Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.

    3Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he was working on the wheels.

    4And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again into another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

    5Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Jer 18:7
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    7At any moment I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

  • Isa 64:8
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    8But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

  • Isa 29:16
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    16Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay; for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

  • Rom 9:20-21
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    20But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him who formed it, Why have you made me like this?

    21Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

  • Isa 45:9
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    9Woe to him who strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him who forms it, What are you making? or shall your work say, He has no hands?

  • Jer 19:11
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    11And shall say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, until there is no place left to bury.

  • Isa 30:14
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    14And he shall break it as the breaking of the potter's vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found among its fragments a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water from the pit.

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    14Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days when I shall deal with you? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.

  • Jer 3:19-20
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    19But I said, How shall I put you among the children and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? And I said, You shall call me, My Father; and shall not turn away from me.

    20Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says the LORD.

  • Jer 10:1
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    1Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel:

  • Amos 6:14
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    14But behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, says the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the river of the wilderness.

  • Zech 11:13
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    13The LORD said to me, 'Throw it to the potter—that princely price they set on me.' So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.

  • Isa 51:16
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    16And I have put my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, 'You are my people.'

  • Jer 2:4
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    4Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:

  • Jer 13:11
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    11For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so have I caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to me, says the LORD; that they might be to me a people, and a name, and a praise, and a glory: but they would not hear.

  • Acts 7:50
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    50Has not my hand made all these things?

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

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    1Thus says the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

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    7Are you not as children of the Ethiopians to me, O children of Israel? says the LORD. Have I not brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

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    17Gather up your wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.

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    11Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons, and concerning the work of My hands, you command Me.

  • Jer 7:14
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    14Therefore I will do unto this house, which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

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    6Behold, I am in your place before God; I also am formed out of clay.

  • Ezek 22:18
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    18Son of man, the house of Israel is to Me like dross: all of them are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.

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    6You have forsaken me, says the LORD, you have gone backward: therefore I will stretch out my hand against you, and destroy you; I am weary with repenting.

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    21Yes, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;

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    2The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they regarded as clay pots, the work of the hands of the potter!

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