耶利米書 18:2
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"Go down to the potter's house, and there I will give you my message."
So I went down to the potter's house, and I saw him working at the wheel.
But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
Then the word of the Lord came to me.
He said, "Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?" declares the Lord. "Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel.
「你起來，下到窯匠的家裡去，我在那裡要使你聽我的話。」
我就下到窯匠的家裡去，正遇他轉輪做器皿。
窯匠用泥做的器皿，在他手中做壞了，他又用這泥另做別的器皿；窯匠看怎樣好，就怎樣做。
耶和華的話就臨到我說：
「耶和華說：以色列家啊，我待你們，豈不能照這窯匠弄泥嗎？以色列家啊，泥在窯匠的手中怎樣，你們在我的手中也怎樣。
以賽亞書 64:8
Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.
耶和華啊，現在你仍是我們的父！我們是泥，你是窯匠；我們都是你手的工作。
約伯記 10:8
- 12
"Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me?
Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again?
Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese,
clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews?
You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit.
你的手創造我，造就我的四肢百體，你還要毀滅我。
求你記念製造我如摶泥一般，你還要使我歸於麈土嗎？
你不是倒出我來好像奶，使我凝結如同奶餅嗎？
你以皮和肉為衣給我穿上，用骨與筋把我全體聯絡。
你將生命和慈愛賜給我；你也眷顧保全我的心靈。
哥林多後書 4:7
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.
我們有這寶貝放在瓦器裡，要顯明這莫大的能力是出於神，不是出於我們。
創世記 2:7
Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
耶和華神用地上的塵土造人，將生氣吹在他鼻孔裡，他就成了有靈的活人，名叫亞當。
以賽亞書 29:16
You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, "You did not make me"? Can the pot say to the potter, "You know nothing"?
你們把事顛倒了，豈可看窯匠如泥嗎？被製作的物豈可論製作物的說：他沒有製作我？或是被創造的物論造物的說：他沒有聰明？
提摩太後書 2:20
In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay; some are for special purposes and some for common use.
在大戶人家，不但有金器銀器，也有木器瓦器；有作為貴重的，有作為卑賤的。
約伯記 27:16
Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay,
他雖積蓄銀子如塵沙，預備衣服如泥土；
詩篇 100:3
Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his ; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
你們當曉得耶和華是神！我們是他造的，也是屬他的；我們是他的民，也是他草場的羊。
詩篇 139:13
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For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
我的肺腑是你所造的；我在母腹中，你已覆庇我。
我要稱謝你，因我受造，奇妙可畏；你的作為奇妙，這是我心深知道的。
我在暗中受造，在地的深處被聯絡；那時，我的形體並不向你隱藏。
我未成形的體質，你的眼早已看見了；你所定的日子，我尚未度一日（或作：我被造的肢體尚未有其一），你都寫在你的冊上了。
耶利米書 18:6
He said, "Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?" declares the Lord. "Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel.
「耶和華說：以色列家啊，我待你們，豈不能照這窯匠弄泥嗎？以色列家啊，泥在窯匠的手中怎樣，你們在我的手中也怎樣。
羅馬書 9:20
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But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? "Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?' "
Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?
What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath-prepared for destruction?
你這個人哪，你是誰，竟敢向神強嘴呢？受造之物豈能對造他的說：「你為什麼這樣造我呢？
窯匠難道沒有權柄從一團泥裡拿一塊作成貴重的器皿，又拿一塊作成卑賤的器皿嗎？
倘若神要顯明他的忿怒，彰顯他的權能，就多多忍耐寬容那可怒預備遭毀滅的器皿，
詩篇 18:42
I beat them as fine as windblown dust; I trampled them like mud in the streets.
我搗碎他們，如同風前的灰塵，倒出他們，如同街上的泥土。
