Lamentations 4:2

Though the precious people of Zion were like fine gold, how they are valued like clay vessels, the handiwork of a potter!

Jeremiah 19:11

and say to them, "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "In this same way I'll break this people and this city, just as someone breaks a potter's vessel which he then cannot put back together again. They'll bury corpses in Topheth until there is no more room to bury anyone.

Isaiah 30:14

Its breaking will be like when potters' vessels are broken, shattered so ruthlessly that among its fragments not even a broken sliver will be found for taking fire from a hearth or scooping water out of a cistern."

Isaiah 51:18

There is no one to guide you out of all the children she bore, no one to take her by the hand out of all the children she brought up.

Jeremiah 22:28

"Is this man Jehoiachin a despised and shattered jar, a vessel no one wants? Why were he and his descendants hurled away, thrown into a land that they didn't know?

Lamentations 2:21

Young men and the aged lie on the ground in the streets; my young women and young men have fallen by the sword. You killed them in your anger, slaughtering them without pity.

Lamentations 5:12

Princes they have hung by their hands; elders they have disrespected.

Zechariah 9:13

For I have bent Judah as if it were my bow, loading it with Ephraim. I raised up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, wielding you like a mighty warrior's sword."

Romans 9:21-23

A potter has the right to do what he wants to with his clay, doesn't he? He can make something for a special occasion or something for ordinary use from the same lump of clay.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in clay jars to show that its extraordinary power comes from God and not from us.

2 Timothy 2:20

In a large house there are not only utensils made of gold and silver, but also those made of wood and clay. Some are for special use, while others are for ordinary use.

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Summary

The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

Bible References

How

Lamentations 2:21
Young men and the aged lie on the ground in the streets; my young women and young men have fallen by the sword. You killed them in your anger, slaughtering them without pity.
Lamentations 5:12
Princes they have hung by their hands; elders they have disrespected.
Isaiah 30:14
Its breaking will be like when potters' vessels are broken, shattered so ruthlessly that among its fragments not even a broken sliver will be found for taking fire from a hearth or scooping water out of a cistern."
Jeremiah 19:11
and say to them, "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "In this same way I'll break this people and this city, just as someone breaks a potter's vessel which he then cannot put back together again. They'll bury corpses in Topheth until there is no more room to bury anyone.
Jeremiah 22:28
"Is this man Jehoiachin a despised and shattered jar, a vessel no one wants? Why were he and his descendants hurled away, thrown into a land that they didn't know?
Romans 9:21
A potter has the right to do what he wants to with his clay, doesn't he? He can make something for a special occasion or something for ordinary use from the same lump of clay.
2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this treasure in clay jars to show that its extraordinary power comes from God and not from us.
2 Timothy 2:20
In a large house there are not only utensils made of gold and silver, but also those made of wood and clay. Some are for special use, while others are for ordinary use.

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