Jeremiah 18:6

The Passion Translation

“Can I not do with the people of Israel just as the potter has done with the clay?” declares Yahweh. “Listen, people of Israel. You are clay that I shape in my hands like the clay in the potter’s hands.

Cross References

Isaiah 64:8

Yet still, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are like clay and you are our Potter. Each one of us is the creative, artistic work of your hands.

Isaiah 45:9

Shame on the one who argues with his Creator, like one clay pot among other pots arguing with the potter. Should the clay say to the potter, ‘What in the world are you doing with me? Your hands are clumsy’?

Jeremiah 18:4

And whenever a piece of pottery turned out flawed, he reworked it into another vessel, as seemed good to the potter.

Matthew 20:15

Don’t I have the right to do what I want with what is mine? Why should my generosity make you jealous of them?’

Daniel 4:23

“Now you, O king, saw a watcher—a holy messenger—come down from heaven, saying, ‘Cut the tree down and destroy it, but leave the stump and roots in the ground. Encircle it with chains of iron and bronze in the midst of the grass of the field. Let him be damp with the dew every night. Let him live with the animals among the plants of the earth as his appointed lot until seven years have passed by for him.’

Romans 11:34

For who has discovered how the Lord thinks or is wise enough to be the one to advise him in his plans?

Jeremiah 18:5

Then Yahweh began to speak to me.