2 “Go down at once to the potter’s house, and there I will reveal My message to you.” 3 So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the wheel. 4 But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.
Jeremiah 18:2–4
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