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The word rendered “frame” is a present participle, and is the same
which as a noun means “a potter.” God declares that He is as free
to do what He will with the Jews as the potter is free to shape as...
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CHAPTER 18
The Potter and the Clay
_ 1. In the potter's house and the message (Jeremiah 18:1) _
2. The plot against the prophet and his prayer (Jeremiah 18:18)
Jeremiah 18:1. He was comm
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THE POTTER AND THE CLAY. The potter (Jeremiah 18:1) moulding his clay
on the upper stone, which he makes revolve by his feet resting on the
connected lower stone, is compared with Yahweh in His contro...
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MEN. Hebrew ish.
I FRAME. I work (as the potter in Jeremiah 18:3)...
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The direct application of the figure to the people here begins.
_frame_ The Hebrew root is the same as that for _potter_.
_amend your ways and your doings_ See on ch. Jeremiah 7:3....
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C. The Proclamation to the People Jeremiah 18:11-12
TRANSLATION
(11) And now speak please unto the men of Judah and unto the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the LORD! Behold, I am
about t...
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Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame
evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now ever...
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1-17. Figure of the potter's clay....
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FRAME] the Hebrew word is the same as that for 'potter.'...
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I FRAME EVIL. — The verb chosen is that which specially describes
the potter’s work, and from which the Hebrew word for potter is
itself derived. This, so to speak, is the shape of the vessel actually...
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וְ עַתָּ֡ה אֱמָר ־נָ֣א אֶל ־אִישׁ
־יְהוּדָה֩
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CHAPTER XI
THE DIVINE POTTER
Jeremiah 18:1
JEREMIAH goes down into the Lower Town, or the valley between the
upper and lower city; and there his attention is arrested by a potter
sitting at work bef...
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We now come to the second series of messages before the fall of
Jerusalem (18-20), which consists of declarations of God's absolute
supremacy. In preparation for this, Jeremiah was sent to the house o...
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The Lord himself explains and applies his type of the Potter. And in
Jesus how hath the doctrine been fully proved? Surely the Lord can
with infinitely more ease create new hearts in his people, and r...
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The Prophet is now bidden to turn his discourse to the Jews, that he
might apply the doctrine of repentance, to which he had referred; for
a doctrine generally stated, as it is well known, is less eff...
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In chapter 18 this principle is fully demonstrated before the people
(Jeremiah 18:1-10). But the people in despair as to God, in the midst
of their boldness in evil and in contempt of His marvellous p...
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NOW THEREFORE GO TO,.... This is the application of the above general
rules of procedure to the people of the Jews, and particularly that
which relates to the destruction of a nation or kingdom, and t...
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_Now therefore speak to the men of Judah_ The Lord now commands his
prophet to make a particular application of the more general doctrine
which he had before delivered. _Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I...
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Now, therefore, go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, in announcing the intention of the Lord on
the basis of the nation's behavior, SAYING, THUS SAITH THE LORD,
BEHOL...
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THE PARABLE FURTHER APPLIED...
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11-17 Sinners call it liberty to live at large; whereas for a man to
be a slave to his lusts, is the very worst slavery. They forsook God
for idols. When men are parched with heat, and meet with cool...
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The Lord fixeth a particular application to the more general doctrine
which he had before delivered. God had told this people, that though
he had by his prophet denounced his wrath and anger, and thre...
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Jeremiah 18:11 speak H559 (H8798) men H376 Judah H3063 inhabitants
H3427 (H8802) Jerusalem H3389 saying H559 ...
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BECAUSE OF THEIR REFUSAL TO RESPOND TO HIS ‘SHAPING' HE WILL NOW
‘SHAPE' EVIL AGAINST THEM UNLESS THEY NOW REPENT. HIS OFFER BEING
TURNED DOWN GOD CALLS ON THE NATIONS TO BE ASTONISHED WITNESSES OF
TH...
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CONTENTS: Sign of the potter's house. Declaration of God's ways of
dealing with nations. Jeremiah's complaint.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Jehovah has incontestable and irresistible abili...
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Jeremiah 18:6. _As the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in my
hand._ The sense is given in the next words; the exaltation, or the
degradation of a nation, is wholly with the Lord. If they, unde...
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_Return ye now everyone from his evil way._
“RETURN! RETURN!”
My text is all about repentance; it is an exhortation from God, very
brief and sententious, but very earnest and plain: “Return ye now
ev...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Early
in Jehoiakim’s reign (See _Chronological Note_ on Section 19–27 of
previous chapter). Probably about two years later than that messag...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter is the introduction of a group of prophecies (extending
to Jeremiah 25:1.) of various dates; their sequence has evidently not
been determined by chronological considerations. T...
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Now in chapter 18:
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Arise, and go
down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my
words. Then I went down to the potter's house...
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2 Kings 17:13; 2 Kings 22:13; 2 Kings 5:5; Acts 26:20; Ezekiel 13:22;