I am forgotten, like a dead man no one thinks about; I am regarded as worthless, like a broken jar.
“He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me.
My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me.
For I am like a wineskin dried up in smoke. I do not forget your statutes.
You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’”
Those who seek my life try to entrap me; those who want to harm me speak destructive words; all day long they say deceitful things.
The Lord deserves praise forevermore! We agree! We agree!
It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern.”
he will rule them with an iron rod and like clay jars he will break them to pieces,