34 Bible Verses about Clay

Now when I came to the Potter's house, I found him making his work upon a wheel. The vessel that the Potter made of clay, brake among his hands: So he began anew, and made another vessel, according to his mind.

Doubtless, your destruction is, in reputation, as the potter's clay. And doth the work say of him that made it, "He made me not?" And doth an earthen vessel say of the potter, "He understandeth not?"

Nevertheless, I have waked up one from the North, and he shall come. And another from the East, which shall call upon my name, and shall come to the princes, as the Potter to his clay, and as the Potter treadeth down the mire.

Woe be unto him that chideth with his maker, the potsherd with the potter. Sayeth the clay to the potter, "What makest thou?" or "Thy work serveth for nothing?"

and the earthen pot that it is sodden in shall be broken. If it be sodden in brass, then the pot shall be scoured and plunged in the water.

"'All manner of earthen vessel whereinto any of them falleth, is unclean with all that therein is: and ye shall break it.

And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed over an earthen vessel of running water.

And if he touch a vessel of earth, it shall be broken: and all vessels of wood shall be rinsed in the water.

{Beth} The children of Zion that were always in honour, and clothed with the most precious gold: how are they now become like the earthen vessels which be made with the potter's hand?

Moreover, thus said the LORD unto Jeremiah, "Go thy way, and buy thee an earthen pitcher, and bring forth the Senators, and the chief priests into the valley of the children of Hinnom, which lieth before the port that is made of brick, and show them there the words, that I shall tell thee, and say thus unto them: 'Hear the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and ye citizens of Jerusalem! Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring such a plague upon this place, that the ears of all that hear it, shall glow.

and let him take holy water in an earthen vessel and of the dust that is in the floor of the habitation, and put it into the water.

'The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, commandeth thee to take this sealed evidence with the copy, and to lay it in an earthen vessel, that it may long continue.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellent power of it might appear to be of God, and not of us.

Thou king sawest, and behold: there stood before thee a great Image, whose figure was marvelous great, and his visage grim. The image head was of fine gold, his breast and arms of silver, his body and loins were of copper, his legs were of iron, his feet were part of iron and part of earth.read more.
Thou beheldest it till a stone was cut without hands, which smote the image upon the feet that were both of iron and earth, and brake them to powder. Then was the iron, the earth, the copper, the silver and gold broken altogether in pieces: and became like the chaff of corn, that the wind bloweth away from the summer floors, that they can no more be found. But the stone that smote the Image, became a great mountain, which fulfilleth the whole earth.

Whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of earth and part of iron: that is a divided kingdom, which nevertheless shall have some of the iron ground mixed with it, forsomuch as thou hast seen the iron mixed with the clay. The toes of the feet that were part of iron and part of clay, signifieth: that it shall be a kingdom partly strong and partly broken. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with clay: they shall mingle themselves with the seed of simple people: and yet not continue one with another, like as iron will not be soldered with a potsherd.read more.
In the days of these kings, shall the God of heaven set up an everlasting kingdom, which shall not perish, and his kingdom shall not be given over to another people. Yea, the same shall break and destroy all these kingdoms, but it shall endure forever. And whereas thou sawest that without any hands there was cut out of the mount a stone, which brake the iron, the copper, the earth, the silver and gold in pieces: by that hath the great God showed the king, what will come after this. This is a true dream, and the interpretation of it is sure."

And in the plain of Jordan did the king cast them: even in the clay of the earth between Succoth and Zarethan.

In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the thick earth, between Succoth and Zeredah -

Draw water now against thou be besieged, make up thy strongholds, go into the clay, temper the mortar, make strong brick:

"Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the brick wall, under the door of Pharaoh's house in Tahpenes, that all the men of Judah may see,

And let them take other stones and put them in the places of those stones, and other mortar, and plaster the house withal.

The words of the LORD are pure words: even as the silver, which from the earth is tried, and purified seven times in the fire.

Their tokens and weapons hast thou turned like clay, and set them up again as the changing of a garment.

Thou son of man, take a tile stone, and lay it before thee, and describe upon it the city of Jerusalem;

Your remembrance shall be like unto the dust, and your pride shall be turned to clay.

Behold, he hath found unfaithfulness among his own servants, and proud disobedience among his angels. How much more then shall they that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is but earth: which shall be consumed by the moth?

Though he have as much money as the dust of the earth, and raiment as ready as the clay,

Notwithstanding, in a great house are not only vessels of gold and of silver: but also of wood and of earth: Some for honour, and some unto dishonour.

But now O LORD, thou father of ours: we are the clay, and thou art our potter, and we all are the work of thy hands.

O remember, I beseech thee, how that thou madest me of the mould of the earth, and shalt bring me into dust again.

Behold, before God am I, even as thou, for I am fashioned and made even of the same mould.

"May not I do with you, as this Potter doth, O ye house of Israel, sayeth the LORD? Behold, ye house of Israel: ye are in my hand, even as the clay in the Potter's hand.

Thou wilt say then unto me, "Why then blameth he us yet? For who can resist his will?" But O man what art thou, which disputest with God? Shall the work say to the workman, "Why hast thou made me on this fashion?" Hath not the potter power over the clay, even of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?