耶利米书 18:9-10 RCUVSS

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 18:7-10

God's action determined by man's conduct. These verses may be read as balancing those that precede. The illustration of the potter at his work shows us simply the Divine side of life. The following verses take us round to the human side, and the human conditions in accordance with which God exercises the rights and power of his absolute sovereignty. I. GOD DETERMINES HIS ACTION ACCORDING TO THE CONDUCT OF MAN . He does not act blindly, inconsiderately, on. general... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 18:8-12

A never-to-be-forgotten principle of interpretation. These verses plainly teach that all God's threatenings, even the most terrible, and all God's promises, even the most blessed, are conditional on the continuance of the moral character to which they were addressed . Now, this is— I. A CORDIAL AGAINST DESPAIR . When the convicted sinner—as the men of Nineveh—hear the awful denunciations of God's judgment, all hope seems to be forbidden. The Ninevites, to encourage themselves... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 18:9-10

Jeremiah 18:9-10. If I shall speak concerning a nation to build and to plant That is, To advance and establish all the true interests of it; if it do evil in my sight, &c. If it lose its piety and virtue, and become profane and vicious; then will I repent of the good, &c. I will not proceed with the good work which I was performing in its behalf, but it shall be intermitted; and what favours were further designed it shall be withheld. Thus God changed his purpose concerning... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 18:1-23

Lessons from the potter (18:1-23)A potter can make a lump of clay into whatever shape he wants. He can also change the kind of vessel he is making, if he thinks that conditions require it (18:1-4). As a potter determines the kind of vessel he makes, so God determines the destinies of nations, and this is the lesson that the people of Judah must learn (5-6). He may announce judgments on a nation, but he may withdraw those judgments if the nation repents. On the other hand, he may promise... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 18:9

to build, &c. = to declare that it should be built and planted. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 18:1-12

The lesson of the potter’s vessel 18:1-12There are indications in this message that God might yet avert judgment (Jeremiah 18:7-8; Jeremiah 18:11), so Jeremiah evidently delivered it sometime before the Babylonians invaded Judah. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 18:9-10

Conversely, if He purposed to bless a nation, and then it did evil and was disobedient to Him, He could change His mind and not bless it. God does not repent as humans do, but He does relent. That is, He does not abandon evil ways for good ways, nor does He change His mind about everything, but He does become less severe (or more severe) in dealing with people. [Note: See Thomas L. Constable, Talking to God: What the Bible Teaches about Prayer, pp. 149-52.] The character of the clay determined... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 18:1-18

Jeremiah’s Eleventh Prophecy (Reign of Jehoiakim). Prophecies Illustrated from the Work of the PotterJeremiah 18 gives and explains the figure of the potter’s clay, and tells of the effect upon the people. Jeremiah 19 gives and applies the figure of the potter’s broken vessel, while Jeremiah 20 describes the consequent sufferings of Jeremiah and his complaints.The outrage on the prophet committed by Pashur (Jeremiah 20:2) would certainly not have been permitted in Josiah’s time. On the other... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 18:1-23

1-17. Figure of the potter’s clay.3. The potter’s house] Clay from which pottery was made was found S. of Jerusalem: cp. Zechariah 11:13; Matthew 27:10. The potter teaches Jeremiah important lessons concerning the providential rule of the world. ’As I watched him shaping the pliant clay, remodelling the imperfect vessels until they conformed to his ideal, God revealed to me the manner in which He is able to mould at His will the nations. At the same time I realised that man may render God’s... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 18:7-10

(7-10) At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation . . .—The words carry the thoughts of the prophet back to those which had been stamped indelibly on his memory when he was first called to his work (Jeremiah 1:10). He is now taught that that work was throughout conditional. In bold anthropomorphic speech Jehovah represents himself as changing His purpose, even suddenly, “in an instant,” if the nation that is affected by it passes from evil to good or from good to evil. The seeming change... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 18:7-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 18:8-12

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 18:9-10

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 18:1-23

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 18:9

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 18:1-12

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 18:9-10

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 18:1-18

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 18:1-23

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 18:7-10

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