¹ The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

^{2 Ref} Up! go down to the potter's house, and there I will let my words come to your ears.

^{3 Ref} Then I went down to the potter's house, and he was doing his work on the stones.

^{4 Ref} And when the vessel, which he was forming out of earth, got damaged in the hand of the potter, he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make it.

⁵ Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

^{6 Ref} O Israel, am I not able to do with you as this potter does? says the Lord. See, like earth in the potter's hand are you in my hands, O Israel.

^{7 Ref} Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it;