Lamentations 4:2

New Century Version

The precious people of Jerusalem were more valuable than gold, but now they are thought of as clay jars made by the hands of a potter.

Cross References

Isaiah 30:14

You will be like a clay jar that breaks, smashed into many pieces. Those pieces will be too small to take coals from the fire or to get water from a well.”

Isaiah 51:18

Jerusalem had many people, but there was not one to lead her. Of all the people who grew up there, no one was there to guide her.

Jeremiah 19:1

This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter.

Jeremiah 19:11

Then say this: ‘The Lord All-Powerful says: I will break this nation and this city just as someone breaks a clay jar that cannot be put back together again. The dead people will be buried here in Topheth, because there is no other place for them.

Jeremiah 22:28

Jehoiachin is like a broken pot someone threw away; he is like something no one wants. Why will Jehoiachin and his children be thrown out and sent into a foreign land?

Lamentations 2:21

“People young and old lie outside on the ground. My young women and young men have been killed by the sword. You killed them on the day of your anger; you killed them without mercy.

Lamentations 5:12

Princes were hung by the hands; they did not respect our elders.

Hosea 8:8

Israel is eaten up; the people are mixed among the other nations and have become useless to me.

Zechariah 9:13

I will use Judah like a bow and Ephraim like the arrows. Jerusalem, I will use your men to fight the men of Greece. I will use you like a warrior’s sword.

2 Corinthians 4:7

We have this treasure from God, but we are like clay jars that hold the treasure. This shows that the great power is from God, not from us.

2 Timothy 2:20

In a large house there are not only things made of gold and silver, but also things made of wood and clay. Some things are used for special purposes, and others are made for ordinary jobs.