Study it in the app“Your perversity! Is the potter to be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, “He did not make me,” and the vessel say of its potter, “He has no understanding”?”
Your perversity!הַפְכְּכֶםIsאִםthe potterהַיֹּצֵרto be regardedיֵחָשֵׁבas the clay,כְּחֹמֶרthatכִּיthe thing madeמַעֲשֶׂהshould sayיֹאמַרof its maker,לְעֹשֵׂהוּ“He did notלֹאmake me,”עָשָׂנִיand the vesselוְיֵצֶרsayאָמַרof its potter,לְיוֹצְרוֹ“He has noלֹאunderstanding”?הֵבִין
perversity, turning upside down
Turning things upside down, perversity.
Where else “hafk” appearspotter
The one who works clay and shapes it into pots with his hands.
Where else “yotser” appearscount
To hold or give something as so: to put it on someone's account.
Where else “yechashev” appearsclay
Wet earth, the potter's dough, or mire.
Where else “chomer” appearswork
What someone does: his works, and especially what God does.
Where else “maase” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomar” appearsmake
To build or create something.
Where else “ose” appearsvessel
What someone shapes with his hands, like a clay pot.
Where else “yetser” appearsunderstand
To understand, realize.
Where else “hevin” appearsPaul uses this image in Romans 9:20.
15Woe to those who go deep to hide their plan from YHWH, and their works are in the dark, and they say, “Who sees us? And who knows us?”
16 · This verse (above)
17Is it not yet a little, a very little, and Lebanon will turn into an orchard, and the orchard will be regarded as a forest?
