⁶ “O house of Israel, ^(A)can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. ^(B)Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

⁴ And the vessel he was making of clay was ^(A)spoiled in the potter's hand, and ^(B)he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.

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?

^15 (A)Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or ^(B)do you begrudge my generosity?’^[a]

²³ And because the king saw ^(A)a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, ^(B)‘Chop down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till ^(C)seven periods of time pass over him,’