In the 18th chapter of the Book of Jeremiah, we find these words: “The Lord spoke to Jeremiah and He said, Go to the potter ’s house.
There I will give you my message.” So Jeremiah went to the potter’s house, and there the potter was working at his wheel, molding a piece of clay into the kind of clay pot he wanted to make. Whenever the clay pot he was working on was ruined, the potter would rework it into a new clay pot, the way he wanted to make it.
As Jeremiah was watching the potter working on this piece of clay, the Lord spoke to him and said, “Give this word to the people of Israel. O My people, can’t I do with you as the potter does with his clay? When the clay he is working on becomes mared, he remolds it into the pottery he wants to make. As the clay is in the hands of the potter, so are you, O Israel, in My hands.”
