NSB(i)
2 »Go to the potter's house. There I will give you my message.«
3 I went to the potter's house, and he was working there at his wheel.
4 When a clay pot he was working on was ruined, he would rework it into a new clay pot the way he wanted to make it.
5 Jehovah spoke his word to me. Jehovah asked:
6 »Nation of Israel, can I do with you as this potter does with clay?« Nation of Israel, »You are in my hands like the clay in the potter's hands.
7 »At one time I may threaten to tear up, break down, and destroy a nation or a kingdom.
8 »However if the nation that I threatened turns away from doing wrong. Then I will change my plans about the disaster I planned to do to it.
9 »At another time I may promise to build and plant a nation or a kingdom.
10 »If that nation does what I consider evil and does not obey me I will change my mind about the good that I promised to do to it.