6 Bible Verses about Clay, Figurative Use

But now, O LORD, thou are our Father. We are the clay, and thou our potter, and we are all the work of thy hand.

its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay. Thou looked until a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. Then the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, was broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. And the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. And the sto

He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou have fashioned me as clay. And will thou bring me into dust again?

Behold, I am toward God even as thou are. I also am formed out of the clay.

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