But now, Lord, (A)You are our Father;
We are the (B)clay, and You our potter,
And all of us are the (C)work of Your hand.

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21 Or does the potter not have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one object [a]for honorable use, and another [b]for common use?

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  1. Romans 9:21 Lit for honor
  2. Romans 9:21 Lit for dishonor

27 and he shall [a](A)rule them with a rod of iron, (B)as the vessels of the potter are shattered, as I also have received authority from My Father;

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  1. Revelation 2:27 Lit shepherd

16 You turn things around!
Shall the potter be considered [a]as equal with the clay,
That (A)what is made would say to its maker, “He did not make me”;
Or what is formed say to him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?

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  1. Isaiah 29:16 Lit like

“Woe to the one who (A)quarrels with [a]his Maker—
A piece of pottery [b]among the other earthenware pottery pieces!
Will the (B)clay say to the [c]potter, ‘What are you doing?’
Or the thing you are making say, ‘He has no hands’?

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  1. Isaiah 45:9 Lit He who formed him
  2. Isaiah 45:9 Lit with
  3. Isaiah 45:9 Lit he who formed him

The Potter and the Clay

18 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, “Arise and (A)go down to the potter’s house, and there I will announce My words to you.” So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, making something on the wheel. But the vessel that he was making of clay was spoiled in the hand of the potter; so he remade it into another vessel, as it pleased the potter to make.

Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Am I not able, house of Israel, to deal with you as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Behold, like the (B)clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, house of Israel.

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