Psalm 31:12

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I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

I am reckoned among those who go down to the pit;
I have become like a man without strength,

I said, “I will not see the Lord,
The Lord

in the land of the living;

I will look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world.

‘You shall

break them with a rod of iron,

You shall shatter them like earthenware.’”

Though I have become like a wineskin in the smoke,
I do not forget Your statutes.

Whose collapse is like the smashing of a potter’s jar,

So ruthlessly shattered

That a sherd will not be found among its pieces
To take fire from a hearth
Or to scoop water from a cistern.”

Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use?

and he shall

rule them with a rod of iron

, as the vessels of the potter are broken to pieces, as I also have received authority from My Father;