Jeremiah 18:4
And 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.
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Gill's Exposition
Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying. While he was in the potter's house, and after he had observed his manner of working, and the change he had made in his work, the Lord spoke to him, and…
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.…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
in the hand of the potter rather, as LXX, in his hands, thus avoiding harshness. "The potter" has doubtless crept into MT. from being a marginal gloss. Its admission to the MT. drew with it, through…