does not say that it was marred by the hand of the potter. It allows for the agency of human responsibility. Applying this to national causes, Judah was marred. On the individual level, we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Can that marred clay possibly help itself? Does not its shape and its destiny from beginning to end rest in the hands of the potter? 3. The good thing gone bad has been re-created. “So he made it again into another vessel” (v. 4). In that split second, standing