You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust.’
‘House of Israel, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? ’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration. ‘Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.
‘Woe to the one who argues with his Maker – one clay pot among many. Does clay say to the one forming it, “What are you making? ” Or does your work say, “He has no hands”?