13 Bible Verses about Potter
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But as for you, O LORD, you are our Father; and we are clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hands.
"You are stirring up one from the north, and they are coming from the rising of the sun; and he will be called by his name. Rulers will arrive like mud; just like a potter, he will trample the clay.
The message that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: "Arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I'll allow you to hear my words." So I went down to the potter's house, and there he was doing work at the potter's wheel. read more.
But the vessel he was working on with the clay was ruined in the potter's hand. So he remade it into another vessel that seemed appropriate to him.
"Israel, can't I deal with you like this potter?" declares the LORD. "Look, Israel, like clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand.
Its breaking will be like when potters' vessels are broken, shattered so ruthlessly that among its fragments not even a broken sliver will be found for taking fire from a hearth or scooping water out of a cistern."
He has turned the tables on you as if the potter were thought to be like heat. Can what is made say of the one who made it, "He did not make me?' Or can what is formed say of the ones who formed it, "He has no skill?'
So I went down to the potter's house, and there he was doing work at the potter's wheel.
Though the precious people of Zion were like fine gold, how they are valued like clay vessels, the handiwork of a potter!
Then the LORD told me, "Throw the money into the treasury that magnificent value they placed on me!"
"Arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I'll allow you to hear my words."
These people were potters who lived in Netaim and Gederah in service to their king, who lived there.
This is what the LORD says: "Go and buy a potter's clay jug. Take along some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests.
So they decided to use the money to buy the Potter's Field as a burial ground for foreigners.
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But as for you, O LORD, you are our Father; and we are clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hands.
So I went down to the potter's house, and there he was doing work at the potter's wheel.
Though the precious people of Zion were like fine gold, how they are valued like clay vessels, the handiwork of a potter!
Then the LORD told me, "Throw the money into the treasury that magnificent value they placed on me!"