6 Bible Verses about Clay, Figurative Use

But now, O Lord, You are our Father,
We are the clay, and You our potter;
And all of us are the work of Your hand.

its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. You continued looking until a stone was cut out without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and crushed them. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were crushed all at the same time and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay,
And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.

‘Remember now, that You have made me as clay;
And would You turn me into dust again?

“Behold, I belong to God like you;
I too have been formed out of the clay.

“Can I not, O house of Israel, deal with you as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.