Jeremiah 2 - the Potter and his vessels

Jeremiah 2 - the Potter and his vessels
Jeremiah Chapter 18:1-10

These are the words which came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

"Get up and go to the potter's house, and there you will hear my words". Then I went down to the potter's house and saw that he was making a vessel on his potter's wheel. But the vessel that was made of clay was damaged in the potter's hands so he made another vessel in just a way that seemed good to him.

Then the word of the LORD came to me and said "O Israel, can't I do with you the same as this potter? Just as the clay is in the potter's hand, you are in my hand O house of Israel. In one moment I shall speak about a nation and a kingdom, to pick it up, to pull it down, or to destroy it. If that nation turns from its wicked ways, I will not do the judgments that I thought to do to them.

And in one moment I shall speak about a nation and a kingdom to build it up and plant it. If that nation does evil in my sight by disobeying my voice, then I will not do the good things that I was going to do for them.

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Memory Verse: Jeremiah 18:6 "O Israel, can't I do with you the same as this potter? Just as the clay is in the potter's hand, you are in my hand O house of Israel."

Questions
1 Where did the LORD tell Jeremiah to go?
2 What was the potter doing?
3 What happened to the vessel the potter was making? what did he do?
4 How did the LORD compare Israel to the clay vessel?
5 what did the LORD say he would do to a nation that turned from its wicked ways?
6 what did the LORD say he would do to a nation that did evil in his sight?

Answers
1to the potter's house
2 making a vessel on his potter's wheel
3 it was damaged in his hands so he made another one in a way that seemed good to him.
4 the LORD said that just as the clay was in the potter's hands, Israel was in the LORD's hands
5 the LORD said that if a nation turned from its wicked ways he would not bring the judgments he was going to do to them
6. the LORD said that if a nation did evil in his sight by disobeying his voice, then he would not do the good things he was going to do for them.

V. Gross/June'06