Jeremiah 18:1–11

The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:

²Arise, and go down into the potter’s house, and there thou shalt hear my words.

³And I went down into the potter’s house, and behold he was doing a work on the wheel.

⁴And the vessel was broken which he was making of clay with his hands: and turning he made another vessel, as it seemed good in his eyes to make it.

⁵Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

⁶Cannot I do with you, as this potter, O house of Israel, saith the Lord? behold as clay is in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

⁷I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy it.

⁸If 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.

⁹And I will suddenly speak of a nation and of a kingdom, to build up and plant it.

¹⁰If 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.

¹¹Now therefore tell the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: let every man of you return from his evil way, and make ye your ways and your doings good.