Lamentations 4:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!

Cross References

Isaiah 30:14

And he will let it be broken as a potter's vessel is broken: it will be smashed to bits without mercy; so that there will not be a bit in which one may take fire from the fireplace, or water from the spring.

Isaiah 51:18

She has no one among all her children to be her guide; not one of the sons she has taken care of takes her by the hand.

Jeremiah 19:1

This is what the Lord has said: Go and get for money a potter's bottle made of earth, and take with you some of the responsible men of the people and of the priests;

Jeremiah 19:11

And say to them, This is what the Lord of armies has said: Even so will this people and this town be broken by me, as a potter's bottle is broken and may not be put together again: and the bodies of the dead will be put in the earth in Topheth, till there is no more room.

Jeremiah 22:28

Is this man Coniah a broken vessel of no value? is he a vessel in which there is no pleasure? why are they violently sent out, he and his seed, into a land which is strange to them?

Lamentations 2:21

The young men and the old are stretched on the earth in the streets; my virgins and my young men have been put to the sword: you have sent death on them in the day of your wrath, causing death without pity.

Lamentations 5:12

Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.

Hosea 8:8

Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.

Zechariah 9:13

For I have made Judah a bow bent for my use, I have made Ephraim the arrows of the bow; I will make your sons, O Zion, take up arms against your sons, O Greece, and will make you like the sword of a man of war.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this wealth in vessels of earth, so that it may be seen that the power comes not from us but from God;

2 Timothy 2:20

Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but others of wood and earth, and some which are honoured and some without honour.