Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
The precious sons of Zion being lifted up with fine gold, how they were reckoned for earthen vessels, the work of the hands of the potter.
New American Standard Bible
Weighed against fine gold,
How they are regarded as
The work of a potter’s hands!
King James Version
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
Holman Bible
ב Bet
once worth their weight in pure gold
how they are regarded as clay jars,
the work of a potter’s hands!
International Standard Version
Though the precious people of Zion were like fine gold, how they are valued like clay vessels, the handiwork of a potter!
A Conservative Version
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
American Standard Version
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
Amplified
The [noble and] precious sons of Zion,
[Once] worth their weight in fine gold,
How they are regarded [merely] as earthen jars,
The work of a potter’s hands!
Bible in Basic English
The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!
Darby Translation
The sons of Zion, so precious, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
King James 2000
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
Lexham Expanded Bible
The precious sons of Zion weighed against fine gold, how they are thought of as earthen vessels of clay, the work of the potter's hands.
Modern King James verseion
The precious sons of Zion are weighed against pure gold; how they are counted as earthen vessels, the work of a potter's hand!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
{Beth} The children of Zion that were always in honour, and clothed with the most precious gold: how are they now become like the earthen vessels which be made with the potter's hand?
NET Bible
(Bet) The precious sons of Zion were worth their weight in gold -- Alas! -- but now they are treated like broken clay pots, made by a potter.
New Heart English Bible
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How they are regarded as clay jars, the work of the hands of the potter.
The Emphasized Bible
The precious sons of Zion, they who were weighed against pure gold, How are they accounted as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
Webster
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
World English Bible
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
Youngs Literal Translation
The precious sons of Zion, Who are comparable with fine gold, How have they been reckoned earthen bottles, Work of the hands of a potter.
Interlinear
Yaqar
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 4:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Zion Is Punished
1 How will the gold become dim the good gold will be changed the stones of the holy place shall be poured out in the head of all the streets. 2 The precious sons of Zion being lifted up with fine gold, how they were reckoned for earthen vessels, the work of the hands of the potter. 3 Also the dragons draw out the breast, they suckled their sucklings: the daughter of my people violent as the ostriches in the desert.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 19:11
And say to them, Thus said Jehovah of armies: According to this will I break this people and this city, as he will break the potter's vessel which shall not be able to be healed any more: and in Tophet shall they bury, from not a place to bury.
Isaiah 30:14
And he broke it as the breaking of a vessel of the potter's being crushed; he will not spare: and there shall not be found in its crushing a sherd to take fire from the burning, and to skim off water from the reservoir.
Isaiah 51:18
None providing for her of all the sons she brought forth; and none holding by her hand of all the sons she caused to grow.
Jeremiah 22:28
Is this man Coniah a despised broken earthen vessel? or a vessel no delight in it? wherefore they were cast out, he and his seed, and they were cast upon a land which they knew not
Lamentations 2:21
The youth and old man lay down upon the earth of the streets; my virgins and my young men fell by the sword; thou didst slay in the day of thine anger; thou didst slay, thou didst not pity.
Lamentations 5:12
Chiefs were hung by their hand: the faces of old men were not honored.
Zechariah 9:13
For I tread out Judah to me, I filled the bow with Ephraim, and I raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and I set thee as the sword of the strong one.
Romans 9:21-23
Or has not the potter power over the clay, of the same mixture truly to make one vessel for honour, and one for dishonour
2 Corinthians 4:7
And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the eminence of power be of God, and not of us.
2 Timothy 2:20
And in a great house there is not only gold and silver vessels, but also wood and earthen; and some truly for honour, and some for dishonour.