You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

O your perversity! Shall the former be counted as the potter's clay; for shall the work say of him who made it, He did not make me? Or shall the thing formed say to him who formed it, He had no understanding?

Arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear My Words.

Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he was working a work on the wheel.

And the vessel that he made in clay was ruined in the hand of the potter; so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter? says Jehovah. Behold, As the clay in the potter's hands, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.

So says Jehovah, Go and get a potter's earthen jar, and assemble from the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests.

and shall say to them, So says Jehovah of Hosts, Even so I will break this people of this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel that cannot be made whole again. And they shall bury them in Tophet until there is no place left to bury.

The precious sons of Zion are weighed against pure gold; how they are counted as earthen vessels, the work of a potter's hand!