Jeremiah 18:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

Jeremiah 18:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 9:20-23
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? …
Jeremiah 18:6
O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
Isaiah 45:9
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-10)

The prophet is here sent to the potter’s house (he knew where to find it), not to preach a sermon as before to the gates of Jerusalem, but to prepare a sermon, or rather to receive it ready prepared. Those needed not to study their sermons that had them, as he had this, by immediate inspiration. “ Go to the potter’s house, and observe how he manages his work, and there I will cause thee, by silent…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. marred--spoiled. “Of clay” is the true reading, which was corrupted into “as clay” (Margin), through the similarity of the two Hebrew letters, and from Jr 18:6, “as the clay.”