Jeremiah 18:1-7

Here is the word YAHWEH spoke to Jeremiah: “Arise and go to the potter’s workshop, and I will speak to you there.” So I went to the potter’s workshop, and there was the potter spinning his wheel. And whenever a piece of pottery turned out flawed, he reworked it into another vessel, as seemed good to the potter. Then YAHWEH began to speak to me. “Can I not do with the people of Israel just as the potter has done with the clay?” declares YAHWEH. “Listen, people of Israel. You are clay that I shape in my hands like the clay in the potter’s hands. If I speak of uprooting, breaking down, or destroying a nation or a kingdom