Jeremiah 18:6-8

6“O house of Israel, acan I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. bBehold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. 7If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will cpluck up and break down and destroy it, 8and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, dturns from its evil, eI will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.
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