Lamentations 4:2

New International Version

How the precious children of Zion, once worth their weight in gold, are now considered as pots of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!

Cross References

Isaiah 30:14

It will break in pieces like pottery, shattered so mercilessly that among its pieces not a fragment will be found for taking coals from a hearth or scooping water out of a cistern.”

Isaiah 51:18

Among all the children she bore there was none to guide her; among all the children she reared there was none to take her by the hand.

Jeremiah 19:1

This is what the Lord says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take along some of the elders of the people and of the priests

Jeremiah 19:11

and say to them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says: I will smash this nation and this city just as this potter’s jar is smashed and cannot be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.

Jeremiah 22:28

Is this man Jehoiachin a despised, broken pot, an object no one wants? Why will he and his children be hurled out, cast into a land they do not know?

Lamentations 2:21

“Young and old lie together in the dust of the streets; my young men and young women have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered them without pity.

Lamentations 5:12

Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up; now she is among the nations like something no one wants.

Zechariah 9:13

I will bend Judah as I bend my bow and fill it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and make you like a warrior’s sword.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.

2 Timothy 2:20

In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay; some are for special purposes and some for common use.