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Jer. 18:4 spoiled. It did not develop properly. reworked. The potter shaped and reshaped the wet clay to keep the developing vessel symmetrical.
Jer. 18:6 can I not do with you? As its maker, God can reshape Israel.
Jer. 18:7 pluck up, break down, destroy. Judgment metaphors from agriculture, construction, and war. See 1:10; 31:28; 45:4. If. Many of the biblical prophecies are conditional. Whether or not the people repent matters, because the goal of prophecy, more than simply telling the future, is the moral formation of God’s people. See note on Jonah 3:4.
Jer. 18:8 turns. From sin to God.
Jer. 18:9 Build and plant are restoration metaphors from construction and agriculture. See 1:10; 42:10.
Jer. 18:10 relent of the good. Remove the blessing the people could have received.
Jer. 18:13 Who has heard? Judah’s covenant breaking is unprecedented. See 2:10–11 for a similar question.
Jer. 18:14–16 Does the snow of Lebanon leave . . . Do the mountain waters run dry? Both questions expect a negative answer. In contrast, Judah has done the unnatural thing and deserted God.
Jer. 18:18 The people rejected the notion that Jeremiah was right and all their leaders wrong (1:17–19; 2:8; 5:13; 31; 6:13).
Jer. 18:19–20 my adversaries. Those plotting against Jeremiah.
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