Lamentations 4:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² The precious children of Zion, worth their weight in fine gold— how they are reckoned as earthen pots, the work of a potter’s hands!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² The precious sons of Zion, Comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, The work of the hands of the potter!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² The noble and precious sons of Zion, [once] worth their weight in fine gold–how they are esteemed [merely] as earthen pots or pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! [Isa. 30:14; Jer. 19:11; II Cor. 4:7.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

Common English Bible

² Zion’s precious children, once valued as pure gold— oh no!—now they are worth no more than clay pots made by a potter.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² BETH. The famous sons of Zion, and those clothed with the foremost gold: how they have become like earthen vessels, the work of the hands of a potter.

Lamentations 4:2 Cross References

Isaiah 30:14

its breaking is like that of a potter’s vessel that is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a sherd is found for taking fire from the hearth or dipping water out of the cistern.

Jeremiah 19:11

and shall say to them: Thus says the Lord of hosts: So will I break this people and this city as one breaks a potter’s vessel, so that it can never be mended. In Topheth they shall bury until there is no more room to bury.

2 Timothy 2:20

In a large house there are utensils not only of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for special use, some for ordinary.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.

Zechariah 9:13

For I have bent Judah as my bow; I have made Ephraim its arrow. I will arouse your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and wield you like a warrior’s sword.

Lamentations 5:12

Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.

Isaiah 51:18

There is no one to guide her among all the children she has borne; there is no one to take her by the hand among all the children she has brought up.

Lamentations 2:21

The young and the old are lying on the ground in the streets; my young women and my young men have fallen by the sword; in the day of your anger you have killed them, slaughtering without mercy.

Jeremiah 22:28

Is this man Coniah a despised broken pot, a vessel no one wants? Why are he and his offspring hurled out and cast away in a land that they do not know?

Jeremiah 19:1

Thus said the Lord: Go and buy a potter’s earthenware jug. Take with you some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests,

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the nations as a useless vessel.