Here’s
a readers’ theatre setting of Jeremiah 18:1-11.
It is set for two voices.
Readers’ Theatre: The Potter and the Clay
(Jeremiah 18: 1-11)
The Lord gave
another message to Jeremiah.
He
said,
Go down to the
potter’s shop, and I will speak to you there.
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.
Therefore, Jeremiah,
go and warn all Judah and Jerusalem.
Say to them, ‘This is
what the Lord says:
I am planning
disaster for you instead of good.
So turn from your
evil ways, each of you, and do what is right.’
