Jeremiah 18:6

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

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?

“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counselor?

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let an animal’s heart be given to him. Then let seven times pass over him.

Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”

You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.

“Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me?

He cried aloud, and said this, ‘Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches! Shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit! Let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.

Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

with all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,

Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

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

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”

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

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.

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Yahweh says: “You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written therein, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cause to cease from there man and animal?’ ” ’

I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren’t aware. You are found, and also caught, because you have fought against Yahweh.

“I saw in the visions of my head on my bed, and behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from the sky.

“Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the sky, and saying, ‘Cut down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him.

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

Even now the ax also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.”

You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

I also will answer my part, and I also will show my opinion.

“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.