6 Bible Verses about Clay, Figurative Use

And now, Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

its legs of iron, its feet part of iron and part of clay. Thou sawest till a stone was cut out without hands; and it smote the image upon its feet of iron and clay, and broke them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken in pieces together, and they became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, and no place was found for them. And the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

And he brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock; he hath established my goings:

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as clay, and wilt bring me into dust again.

Behold, before God I am as thou; I also am formed out of the clay.

House of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand, house of Israel.