Yeremya 18:4

Ki̇tap (Turkish Bible)

4 Yaptığı balçıktan kap elinde bozulunca çömlekçi balçığa istediği biçimi vererek başka bir kap yaptı.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

made of clay was marred in: or, made was marred, as clay in, made it again. Heb. returned and made. as. Jeremiah 18:6, Isaiah 45:9, Romans 9:20-23

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 13:33 - made again Jeremiah 13:9 - After

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the vessel that he made of clay,.... Which is the matter the vessel is made of:

was marred in the hand of the potter; while he was working it; either it fell, as the Septuagint version renders it, out of his hands, or from the beam on which it was laid; or was spoiled by some means or other, so that it was not fit for the purpose he first intended it: or the words should be read, according to some copies, "and the vessel was marred which he made, as clay in the hand of the potter" r; while it was clay; or moist, as Jarchi interprets it; and while it was in his hands, forming and fashioning it:

so he made it again another vessel; put it into another form and shape it would better serve:

as seemed good to the potter to make [it]; just as he pleased, and as his judgment in his art directed him; he having power over the clay to mould it as he would, and as it best answered so to do.

r ונשחת הכלי אשר הוא עשה כחמר ביד היוצר "sed corruptum est vas quod ille ficiens (erat) sicud lutum (solet) in manu figuli", Schmidt, Montanus. So Abarbinel; and thus it is read in the margin of our Bibles.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 18:4. The vessel - was marred in the hands of the potter — It did not stand in the working; it got out of shape; or some gravel or small stone having been incorporated with the mass of clay, made a breach in that part where it was found, so that the potter was obliged to knead up the clay afresh, place it on the wheel, and form it anew; and then it was such a vessel as seemed good to the potter to make it.