Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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
The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thy anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
Lamentations 5:12
Princes were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
Isaiah 30:14
And he shall break it as the breaking of the potter's vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a piece to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the pit.
Jeremiah 19:11
And shalt say to them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.
Jeremiah 22:28
Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel in which is no pleasure? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
Romans 9:21
Hath not the potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel to honor, and another to dishonor?
2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not from us.
2 Timothy 2:20
But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honor, and some to dishonor.