Jeremiah 18:4

New Century Version

He was using his hands to make a pot from clay, but something went wrong with it. So he used that clay to make another pot the way he wanted it to be.

Cross References

Isaiah 45:9

“How terrible it will be for those who argue with the God who made them. They are like a piece of broken pottery among many pieces. The clay does not ask the potter, ‘What are you doing?’ The thing that is made doesn’t say to its maker, ‘You have no hands.’

Jeremiah 18:3

So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the potter’s wheel.

Jeremiah 18:5

Then the Lord spoke his word to me:

Jeremiah 18:6

“Family of Israel, can’t I do the same thing with you?” says the Lord. “You are in my hands like the clay in the potter’s hands.