5. Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
6. Cannot I do with you as this potter, saith the Lord? behold as clay is in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.
7. I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy it.
8. If that nation against which I have spoken, shall repent of their evil, I also will repent of the evil that I have thought to do to them.
9. And I will suddenly speak of a nation and of a kingdom, to build up and plant it.
10. If it shall do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice: I will repent of the good that I have spoken to do unto it.