Lamentations 4:2

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Isaiah 30:14

He shall break it as the breaking of the potter’s vessel that is broken in pieces; He shall not spare so that there shall not be found in the breaking of it a shard to take fire from the hearth or with which to take water out of a cistern.

Isaiah 51:18

There is no one to guide her among all the sons she has brought forth; nor is there anyone to take hold of her hand of all the sons that she has brought up.

Jeremiah 19:1

Thus says the Lord: Go and buy a potter’s earthen bottle, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests.

Jeremiah 19:11

and say to them: Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel that cannot be made whole again; and they will bury them in Topheth until there is no other place to bury.

Jeremiah 22:28

Is this man Koniah a despised broken jar? Is he a vessel in which is no desire? Why are he and his seed cast out and thrown into a land which they had not known?

Lamentations 2:21

The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword; You have killed them in the day of Your anger, You have slaughtered and not pitied.

Lamentations 5:12

Princes were hung up by their hands, the faces of elders were not honored.

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations as a vessel in which there is no pleasure.

Zechariah 9:13

Because I have bent Judah as My bow and fitted the bow with Ephraim. I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and will set you like the sword of a warrior.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, the excellency of the power being from God and not from ourselves.

2 Timothy 2:20

In a large house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also those of wood and clay; some are for honor, and some for dishonor.