LXX Jeremiah 27:25
23 How the hammer of all the earth is broken and crushed! How Babylon has become a destruction among the nations! 24 They will come upon you, and you, like Babylon, will not know it, and you will be taken. You were found and taken, because you stood against the Lord. 25 The Lord has opened his storehouse, and he has brought out the vessels of his wrath, because there is a work for the Lord God in the land of the Chaldeans, 26 for her times have come. Open her storehouses! Search her as a cave, and utterly destroy her. Let there be no remnant of her. 27 Dry up all her fruits and let them go down to slaughter. Woe to them, because their day has come, and their season of vengeance.
Romans 9:22
20 But who indeed are you—a mere human being—to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder, “Why have you made me like this?” 21 Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use? 22 But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction? 23 And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory— 24 even us, whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
Notes and References
"... the idea of “enduring” pottery makes little sense—it is unclear what it would mean to “endure” a clay vessel. Such a reading is even more problematic in the context of Paul’s larger argument, as highlighted by John Battle’s complaint: It is difficult to account for the expression Paul uses: God bears with much longsuffering unbelieving Jews, who are fitted for destruction. How does this patience toward the Jews display God’s wrath or power? Would it not be better to say: he judges, punishes, or oppresses vessels of wrath? Μὴ γένοιτο! On the contrary, rather than deriving the sense of ἤνεγκεν from the nearby μακροθυμίᾳ, it helps to recognize that Paul has lifted this phrase—including the verb he nowhere else uses—from Jer 27:25 LXX (MT 50:25), in which God brings out his instruments of wrath with which he will destroy the land of the Chaldeans. The language here is as close to a direct quotation of scripture as appears in 9:19–24 ..."
Staples, Jason A. Vessels of Wrath and God’s Pathos: Potter/Clay Imagery in Rom 9:20–23 (pp. 1-22) Harvard Theological Review, 2022