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Chapter 18

The Potter’s House.[a] This is the message delivered by the Lord to Jeremiah. “Arise and go forth to the potter’s house, and then I will tell you what I have to say.” Therefore, I proceeded to the potter’s house, where I found him working at his wheel.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 18:1 A visit to a potter suggests to the prophet Jeremiah the idea that God manipulates history as a potter does the clay: he softens and shapes it with the motion of the wheel, and he casts aside the waste.

At the Potter’s House

18 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel.

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