1. The word which came to Yirmeyahu from יהוה, saying,
2. “Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I let you hear My words.”
3. So I went down to the potter’s house, and saw him doing a piece of work on the wheel.
4. And the vessel that he made of clay was ruined in the hand of the potter, so he remade it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.
5. Then the word of יהוה came to me, saying,
6. “O house of Yisra’ĕl, am I not able to do with you as this potter?” declares יהוה. “Look, as the clay is in the hand of the potter, so are you in My hand, O house of Yisra’ĕl!
7. “The moment I speak concerning a nation and concerning a reign, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it,
8. and that nation shall turn from its evil because I have spoken against it, then I shall repent of the evil that I thought to do to it.