Lamentations 4:2

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Isaiah 30:14

And he shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there shall not be found among the pieces of it a shard with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cis

Jeremiah 19:11

and shall say to them, Thus says LORD of hosts: Even so I will break this people and this city, as a potter's vessel is broken, that cannot be made whole again. And they shall bury in Topheth till there be no place to bury.

2 Timothy 2:20

Now in a great house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also wood and earthen, and some for esteem and some for disesteem.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God and not from us,

Zechariah 9:13

For I have bent Judah for me. I have filled the bow with Ephraim. And I will stir up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and will make thee as the sword of a mighty man.

Lamentations 5:12

Rulers were hanged up by their hand. The faces of elders were not honored.

Isaiah 51:18

There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought forth, nor is there any who takes her by the hand among all the sons that she has brought up.

Lamentations 2:21

The youth and the old man lay on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. Thou have slain them in the day of thine anger. Thou have slaughtered, [and] not pitied.

Jeremiah 22:28

Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which none delights? Why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they know not?

Jeremiah 19:1

Thus said LORD: Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests,

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up. They are now among the nations as a vessel in which no man delights.