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The Potter and the Clay

18 The Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. He said, “Go down to the potter’s shop, and I will speak to you there.” So I did as he told me and found the potter working at his wheel. But the jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped, so he crushed it into a lump of clay again and started over.

Then the Lord gave me this message: “O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand. If I announce that a certain nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed, but then that nation renounces its evil ways, I will not destroy it as I had planned. And if I announce that I will plant and build up a certain nation or kingdom, 10 but then that nation turns to evil and refuses to obey me, I will not bless it as I said I would.

11 “Therefore, Jeremiah, go and warn all Judah and Jerusalem. Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am planning disaster for you instead of good. So turn from your evil ways, each of you, and do what is right.’”

12 But the people replied, “Don’t waste your breath. We will continue to live as we want to, stubbornly following our own evil desires.”

13 So this is what the Lord says:

“Has anyone ever heard of such a thing,
    even among the pagan nations?
My virgin daughter Israel
    has done something terrible!
14 Does the snow ever disappear from the mountaintops of Lebanon?
    Do the cold streams flowing from those distant mountains ever run dry?
15 But my people are not so reliable, for they have deserted me;
    they burn incense to worthless idols.
They have stumbled off the ancient highways
    and walk in muddy paths.
16 Therefore, their land will become desolate,
    a monument to their stupidity.
All who pass by will be astonished
    and will shake their heads in amazement.
17 I will scatter my people before their enemies
    as the east wind scatters dust.
And in all their trouble I will turn my back on them
    and refuse to notice their distress.”

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The Potter’s House and the Ruined Vessel

18 The message that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Arise and go down to the potter’s house, and there I’ll allow you to hear my words.” So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was doing work at the potter’s wheel. But the vessel he was working on with the clay was ruined in the potter’s hand. So he remade it into another vessel that seemed appropriate to him.

Then this message from the Lord came to me: “Israel, can’t I deal with you like this potter?” declares the Lord. “Look, Israel, like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand. At one moment I may speak about a nation or a kingdom to uproot it, pull it down, or destroy it. But if that nation about which I spoke turns from its evil way, I’ll change my mind about the disaster that I had planned for it. At another moment I may speak about a nation or kingdom to build it or plant it. 10 But if that nation does evil in my eyes by not obeying me, I’ll change my mind about the good that I said I would bring on it.

11 “Now say to the people of Judah and to the residents of Jerusalem, ‘This is what the Lord says: “Look, I’m designing a disaster just for you, and I’m making plans against you. Each one of you must repent from his evil way. Make your ways and deeds right.”’ 12 But they’ll say, ‘It’s useless! We will follow our plans and each of us will pursue his own evil desires.’[a]

13 “Therefore, this is what the Lord says:

‘Ask the nations.
    Who has ever heard of anything like this?
You have done a most horrible thing,
    virgin Israel.
14 Does the snow of Lebanon
    ever vanish from its rocky slopes?[b]
Or does the cold water from a foreign land
    ever cease to flow?
15 Yet my people have forgotten me,
    and they burn incense to worthless idols
that make them stumble in their journey
    on the ancient paths.
They walk on trails,
    on a way that is not built up.
16 They make their land into a desolate place,
    an object of lasting scorn.[c]
All who pass by will be appalled
    and will shake their heads.[d]
17 ‘Like the east wind, I’ll scatter them
    before the enemy.
I’ll show them my back and not my face,
    on the day of their downfall.’”

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Notas al pie

  1. Jeremiah 18:12 Lit. will do the stubbornness of his evil heart
  2. Jeremiah 18:14 Or Do rocks ever leave the slopes, or the snow from Lebanon?
  3. Jeremiah 18:16 Lit. hissing
  4. Jeremiah 18:16 I.e. in surprise at the magnitude of the destruction