Chapter 19 – Broken Vessel

After visiting the Potter’s House, Jeremiah is instructed by God to go and purchase a clay jar. 
He is then to gather some of the people and some of the elders and pronounce the word of the Lord while holding the jar. After that he is to smash the jar. As the pieces, so the nation. 
The idea in the metaphor is that the destruction would be utter and irreparable.   

What does it mean that Jesus is renewing all things?  

Colossians 1:19,20 
“For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of the cross.”  

I think that he can even repair broken and smashed clay jars.