1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2‘Go down to the potter’s house,
and there I will give you my message.’ 3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and I
saw him working at the wheel. 4 But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred
in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.

5 Then the word of the Lord came to me. 6 He said, ‘Can I not do with you, Israel, as
this potter does?’ declares the Lord. ‘Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in
my hand, Israel. 7 If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted,
torn down and destroyed, 8 and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will
relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. 9 And if at another time I announce
that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, 10 and if it does evil in my sight
and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.

11 ‘Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, “This is
what the Lord says: look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against
you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your
actions.”

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