The Epiousios — ἐπιούσιος, the “daily” of “give us this day our daily bread”. It stands in and , and nowhere else in Scripture.
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יָצַר (yatsar) — Verb
To form, fashion, frame, or shape. Used of a potter pressing and molding soft clay upon a spinning wheel into a vessel of honor.
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“But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.”
(KJV)
Isaiah makes the same confession and attaches it directly to fatherhood rather than to bare power.
Hath Not the Potter PowerNew Testament
“Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?”
(KJV)
Paul presses the image toward the potter's right, which is the part of the metaphor we find hardest to concede.
Take the failure you assume disqualified you, and ask specifically to be remade rather than merely forgiven.
Passage:
Focus: Read what God says the nation may do in response, and note how the chapter records their answer.
Ask yourself: Do you believe God can still make something of you, or only that He will forgive you? Those are different hopes, and He has offered both.
O LORD my potter, the vessel was marred in Your hand and You made it again as seemed good to You. Forgive my resistance, and by Your Holy Spirit remould my marred life into a vessel of honour. I ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus, in whom I am Your workmanship. Amen.