Chapter 18 – The Potter’s House

Another metaphor for the sin of the people and the judgment of God. God tells Jeremiah to go and watch a potter at the wheel. The image is of a pot that is marred, not turning properly, flawed. The potter stops what is being made and reshapes, remakes. So it will be with the people. 

There are a few other things going on in the chapter. God explains the metaphor, then Jeremiah notes that people are speaking against him. They are digging a pit with intention of throwing him into it. Jeremiah has had enough. He now asks God to just wipe the people out. He asks God to not forgive them, to hand their children over to famine. It is not Jeremiah’s best moment.