The Davar which came to Yirmeyah from HASHEM, saying,
Arise, and go down to the bais hayotzer (the house of the potter, Creator), and there I will cause thee to hear My Devar.
Then I went down to the bais hayotzer, and, behold, he wrought a work on the [potterʼs] wheel.
And the keli (vessel) that he was making of khomer (clay) was marred in the yad of the yotzer; so he made it again keli acher (another vessel, a different vessel), as seemed good to the eyes of the yotzer to make it.
Then the Devar HASHEM came to me, saying,
O Bais Yisroel, cannot I do with you as this yotzer? saith HASHEM. Hinei, as the khomer (clay) is in the yotzerʼs yad, so are ye in Mine yad, O Bais Yisroel.
At what instant I shall speak concerning a Goy (nation), and concerning a mamlachah (kingdom), to uproot, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
If that Goy, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their ra'ah, I will relent of the ra'ah that I planned to do unto them.
And at what instant I shall speak concerning a Goy, and concerning a mamlachah, to build and to plant it;
If it do ra'ah in My sight, that it obey not My voice, then I will relent of the tov, wherewith I said I would benefit them.