Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are we in God's hand

Jeremiah 18:1-23
Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel.
If any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.
Like a wind from the east. I will scatter them before their enemies; I will show them my back and not my face in the day of their disaster.
Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember that I stood before you and spoke in their behalf to turn your wrath away from them.
Lord, know all their plots to kill me. Do not forgive their crimes or blot out their sins from your sight. Let them be overthrown before you; deal with them in the time of your anger.
This is another dramatized parable. Like the human plotter.
Again, Jeremiah's vengeful prayer 'Do not forgive...' 'Self-justification, cursing and vengeance in the Psalms' also looks at this issue.
Why?
God has the unquestionable right to remould the spoil nation. We can never simply assume that things will always be the way they are.
God if full with mercy and love, if they repent, he will relent and do not do it he had planned.
We are the clay and God is the plotter, God has shaped us, made us, in his mind and plan. We have not choice to be shaped.
How?
God is good, what he made has his purpose, so obey and follow his command will be the way in my life.