⁸ 'Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether; Yet you destroy me.

⁷³ Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

³ Is it good to you that you should oppress, That you should despise the work of your hands, And smile on the counsel of the wicked?

⁷ everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.

⁶ Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

⁷ Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."

³ Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he was making a work on the wheels.

⁴ When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

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

⁶ House of Israel, can't I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

⁷ At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;

⁸ if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

⁹ At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

¹⁰ if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.