(A)But now, O Lord, you are our Father;
    (B)we are the clay, and you are our potter;
    (C)we are all the work of your hand.

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10 For (A)we are his workmanship, (B)created in Christ Jesus (C)for good works, (D)which God prepared beforehand, (E)that we should walk in them.

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Yodh

73 (A)Your hands have made and fashioned me;
    (B)give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.

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The Lord will (A)fulfill his purpose for me;
    (B)your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever.
    Do not forsake (C)the work of your hands.

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“Arise, and go down to (A)the potter's house, and there I will let you hear[a] my words.” So I went down to (B)the potter's house, and there he was working at his wheel. And the vessel he was making of clay was (C)spoiled in the potter's hand, and (D)he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.

Then the word of the Lord came to me: “O house of Israel, (E)can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. (F)Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 18:2 Or will cause you to hear

Know that (A)the Lord, he is God!
    It is he who (B)made us, and (C)we are his;[a]
    we are his (D)people, and (E)the sheep of his pasture.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 100:3 Or and not we ourselves

16 For (A)you are our Father,
    though Abraham does not know us,
    and Israel does not acknowledge us;
you, O Lord, are our Father,
    (B)our Redeemer from of old is your name.

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16 (A)You turn things upside down!
Shall the potter be regarded as the clay,
that the thing made should say of its maker,
    “He did not make me”;
or the thing formed say of him who formed it,
    “He has no understanding”?

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(A)“Woe to him who strives with him who formed him,
    a pot among earthen pots!
(B)Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’
    or ‘Your work has no handles’?

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24 Thus says the Lord, (A)your Redeemer,
    (B)who formed you from the womb:
(C)“I am the Lord, who made all things,
    (D)who alone stretched out the heavens,
    who spread out the earth by myself,

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The Lord Redeems Israel

21 Remember these things, O Jacob,
    and Israel, for you are (A)my servant;
I formed you; you are my servant;
    (B)O Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.

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everyone who is called by my name,
    whom I created for my glory,
    whom I formed and made.”

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20 But who are you, O man, (A)to answer back to God? (B)Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” 21 (C)Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump (D)one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? 22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience (E)vessels of wrath (F)prepared for destruction, 23 in order to make known (G)the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he (H)has prepared beforehand for glory— 24 even us whom he (I)has called, (J)not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?

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(A)Your hands fashioned and made me,
    and now you have destroyed me altogether.
Remember that you have made me like (B)clay;
    and will you return me to the (C)dust?

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Do you thus repay the Lord,
    you foolish and senseless people?
Is not he (A)your father, who (B)created you,
    who (C)made you and established you?

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26 for in Christ Jesus (A)you are all sons of God, through faith.

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22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, (A)Israel is my (B)firstborn son,

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