Jeremiah 18:3-6

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.