1 The word that came unto Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying:

2 Arise and go down to the house of the potter,and, there, will I cause thee to hear my words.

3 So I went down, to the house of the potter,and there he was! making a piece of work on the wheels,

4 Then was marred, the vessel that he was making, while yet it was clay in the hand of the potter,so he turned and made of it another vessel, as seemed right in the eyes of the potter to make it.

5 Then came the word of Yahweh unto me, saying:

6 Like this potter, can I not deal with you O house of Israel? Demandeth Yahweh: Lo! as clay in the hand of the potter, So, are, ye, in my hand O house of Israel.