8But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. …
Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-12)As we have the Lamentations of Jeremiah, so here we have the Lamentations of Isaiah; the subject of both is the same—the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans and the sin of Israel that brought that destruction—only with this difference, Isaiah sees it at a distance and laments it by the Spirit of prophecy, Jeremiah saw it accomplished. In these verses, I. The people of God in their affliction…
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