Lamentations 4:2

New American Bible - revised edition

And Zion’s precious children, worth their weight in gold— How they are treated like clay jugs, the work of any potter!

Cross References

Isaiah 30:14

Crashing like a potter’s jar smashed beyond rescue, And among its fragments cannot be found a sherd to scoop fire from the hearth or dip water from the cistern.

Isaiah 51:18

She has no one to guide her of all the children she bore; She has no one to take her by the hand, of all the children she reared!—

Jeremiah 19:1

Thus said the Lord: Go, buy a potter’s earthenware flask. Take along some of the elders of the people and some of the priests,

Jeremiah 19:11

and say to them: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Thus will I smash this people and this city, as one smashes a clay pot so that it cannot be repaired. And Topheth shall be its burial place, for there will be no other place for burial.

Jeremiah 22:28

Is this man Coniah a thing despised, to be broken, a vessel that no one wants? Why are he and his offspring cast out? why thrown into a land they do not know?

Lamentations 2:21

They lie on the ground in the streets, young and old alike; Both my young women and young men are cut down by the sword; You killed them on the day of your wrath, slaughtered without pity.

Lamentations 5:12

Princes have been hanged by them, elders shown no respect.

Hosea 8:8

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

Zechariah 9:13

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

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we hold this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassing power may be of God and not from us.

2 Timothy 2:20

In a large household there are vessels not only of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for lofty and others for humble use.