5. Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
6. "Am I not able to do with you, O house of Israel, just as this potter has done, says the Lord? Behold, like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.
7. Suddenly, I will speak against a nation and against a kingdom, so that I may uproot, and destroy, and scatter it.
8. If that nation, against which I have spoken, will repent from their evil, I too will repent from the evil that I have decided I would do to them.
9. And soon, I will speak about a nation and about a kingdom, so that I may build and plant it.