Focused Passage
The Potter’s House, the Refused Return, and the Plot Against Jeremiah
The chapter moves from Jeremiah’s descent to the potter’s house, to the ruined vessel remade in the potter’s hands, to the LORD’s explanation of his sovereign and conditional dealings with nations, to Judah’s refusal to turn, to a creation-and-nations comparison exposing Judah’s unnatural apostasy, to the announcement of scattering and divine hiddenness, and finally to the people’s plot against Jeremiah and Jeremiah’s plea for vindication.
Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources
1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
2 “Go down at once to the potter’s house, and there I will give you My message.”
3 So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the wheel.
4 But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.
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