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brought bedding and bowls and articles of pottery. They also brought wheat and barley, flour and roasted grain, beans and lentils,
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They were the potters who lived at Netaim and Gederah; they stayed there and worked for the king.
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Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.
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You will break them with a rod of iron; you will dash them to pieces like pottery.”
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I am forgotten as though I were dead; I have become like broken pottery.
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You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, “You did not make me”? Can the pot say to the potter, “You know nothing”?
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It will break in pieces like pottery, shattered so mercilessly that among its pieces not a fragment will be found for taking coals from a hearth or scooping water out of a cistern.”
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“I have stirred up one from the north, and he comes— one from the rising sun who calls on my name. He treads on rulers as if they were mortar, as if he were a potter treading the clay.
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“Woe to those who quarrel with their Maker, those who are nothing but potsherds among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘The potter has no hands’?
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Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.
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At the Potter’s House
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:
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“Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.”
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So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel.
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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.
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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.
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This is what the Lord says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take along some of the elders of the people and of the priests
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and say to them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says: I will smash this nation and this city just as this potter’s jar is smashed and cannot be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.
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How the precious children of Zion, once worth their weight in gold, are now considered as pots of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!
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And the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the handsome price at which they valued me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the house of the Lord.
