Jeremiah 18:4
Now and then there would be something wrong with the pot he was molding from the clay with his hands. So he would rework the clay into another kind of pot as he saw fit.
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- Jer 18:6 : 6 “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.’
- Rom 9:20-23 : 20 But who indeed are you– a mere human being– to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder,“Why have you made me like this?” 21 Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use? 22 But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction? 23 And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory–
- Isa 45:9 : 9 The Lord Gives a Warning One who argues with his Creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter,“What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!”
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These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.
- Jer 18:1-33 verses88%
1An Object Lesson from the Making of Pottery The LORD said to Jeremiah:
2“Go down at once to the potter’s house. I will speak to you further there.”
3So I went down to the potter’s house and found him working at his wheel.
- Jer 18:5-73 verses87%
5Then the LORD’s message came to me,
6“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.’
7There are times, Jeremiah, when I threaten to uproot, tear down, and destroy a nation or kingdom.
- Rom 9:20-223 verses83%
20But who indeed are you– a mere human being– to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder,“Why have you made me like this?”
21Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?
22But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?
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16Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker,“He didn’t make me”? Or should the pottery say about the potter,“He doesn’t understand”?
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9The Lord Gives a Warning One who argues with his Creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter,“What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!”
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8Yet, LORD, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.
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14It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern.”
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2ב(Bet) The precious sons of Zion were worth their weight in gold– Alas!– but now they are treated like broken clay pots, made by a potter.
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11Tell them the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says,‘I will do just as Jeremiah has done. I will smash this nation and this city as though it were a potter’s vessel which is broken beyond repair. The dead will be buried here in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.’
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1An Object Lesson from a Broken Clay Jar The LORD told Jeremiah,“Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take with you some of the leaders of the people and some of the leaders of the priests.
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13The LORD then said to me,“Throw to the potter that exorbitant sum at which they valued me!” So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the temple of the LORD.
- Job 10:8-92 verses69%
8Contradictions in God’s Dealings“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.
9Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?
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16Look, I create the craftsman, who fans the coals into a fire and forges a weapon. I create the destroyer so he might devastate.
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14The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features are dyed like a garment.
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20Now in a wealthy home there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also ones made of wood and of clay, and some are for honorable use, but others for ignoble use.
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2“I, the LORD, do these things. I, the LORD, form the plan to bring them about. I am known as the LORD. I say to you,
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6Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.
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28This man, Jeconiah, will be like a broken pot someone threw away. He will be like a clay vessel that no one wants. Why will he and his children be forced into exile? Why will they be thrown out into a country they know nothing about?
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10Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?
- Jer 18:10-112 verses67%
10But if that nation does what displeases me and does not obey me, then I will cancel the good I promised to do to it.
11So now, tell the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem this: The LORD says,‘I am preparing to bring disaster on you! I am making plans to punish you. So, every one of you, stop the evil things you have been doing. Correct the way you have been living and do what is right.’
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1Individual Retribution The LORD’s message came to me:
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3Recite a proverb to this rebellious house and say to them,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘Set on the pot, set it on, pour water in it too;
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8Then the LORD’s message came to me,
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19A craftsman casts an idol; a metalsmith overlays it with gold and forges silver chains for it.
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4The LORD’s message came to me,
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50Did my hand not make all these things?’
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20Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all.”
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33As for any clay vessel they fall into, everything in it will become unclean and you must break it.
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4Remove the dross from the silver, and material for the silversmith will emerge;
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23They were the potters who lived in Netaim and Gederah; they lived there and worked for the king.
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21Indeed, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel has already spoken about the valuable articles that are left in the LORD’s temple, in the royal palace of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
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4Jeremiah’s Call and Commission The LORD’s message came to me,
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28Any clay vessel it is boiled in must be broken, and if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then that vessel must be rubbed out and rinsed in water.
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4The LORD told Jeremiah,“Tell Baruch,‘The LORD says,“I am about to tear down what I have built and to uproot what I have planted. I will do this throughout the whole earth.
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19Because of this, the LORD said,“You must repent of such words and thoughts! If you do, I will restore you to the privilege of serving me. If you say what is worthwhile instead of what is worthless, I will again allow you to be my spokesman. They must become as you have been. You must not become like them.
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8Moreover, the LORD’s message came to me as follows:
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25I have stirred up one out of the north and he advances, one from the eastern horizon who prays in my name. He steps on rulers as if they were clay, like a potter treading the clay.
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9You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’”
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5Indeed! If it was not made into anything useful when it was whole, how much less can it be made into anything when the fire has burned it up and it is charred?