“‘ You formed me with your hands; you made me, yet now you completely destroy me.

你的手创造我，造就我的四肢百体，你还要毁灭我。

你的手塑造我，造了我，但我整个人却要一起被你吞灭。

你的手塑造我，造了我，但我整个人却要一起被你吞灭。

“‘你亲手造我塑我，现在却要毁灭我。

你的手塑我造我，但一转过来你就要毁灭我。

你的手創造我，造就我的四肢百體，你還要毀滅我。

你的手塑造我，造了我，但我整個人卻要一起被你吞滅。

你的手塑造我，造了我，但我整個人卻要一起被你吞滅。

「『你親手造我塑我，現在卻要毀滅我。

你的手塑我造我，但一轉過來你就要毀滅我。

你的手雕造了我，製造了我，一旦轉而毁滅了我！

爾手造我、甄陶成形、乃欲滅我、

我之百體、爾所甄陶、奚為滅我。

主手造我、製我四肢百體、今欲滅我乎、

“ Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me?

“‘ Your hands shaped me and made me. So are you going to destroy me now?

Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether.

“ Your hands shaped me and formed me. Will you now turn and destroy me?

‘ Your hands fashioned and made me altogether, Yet would You destroy me?

‘ Your hands have made me and fashioned me, An intricate unity; Yet You would destroy me.

Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

“ Your hands shaped me and formed me. Will You now turn and destroy me?

Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

“ Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.

“‘ Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

You made me; you created me. Now give me the sense to follow your commands.

Bring all who claim me as their God, for I have made them for my glory. It was I who created them.’”

What do you gain by oppressing me? Why do you reject me, the work of your own hands, while smiling on the schemes of the wicked?

So I did as he told me and found the potter working at his wheel.But the jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped, so he crushed it into a lump of clay again and started over.Then the Lord gave me this message:“ O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand.If I announce that a certain nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed,but then that nation renounces its evil ways, I will not destroy it as I had planned.And if I announce that I will plant and build up a certain nation or kingdom,but then that nation turns to evil and refuses to obey me, I will not bless it as I said I would.

So the Lord was sorry he had ever made them and put them on the earth. It broke his heart.And the Lord said,“ I will wipe this human race I have created from the face of the earth. Yes, and I will destroy every living thing— all the people, the large animals, the small animals that scurry along the ground, and even the birds of the sky. I am sorry I ever made them.”