Lamentations 4:2

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

The precious sons of Zion, worth their weight in fine gold, how they are reckoned as earthen pots, the work of a potter's hands!

Cross References

Isaiah 30:14

and its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel which is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a sherd is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

Jeremiah 19:11

and shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, so that it can never be mended. Men shall bury in Topheth because there will be no place else to bury.

2 Timothy 2:20

In a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and earthenware, and some for noble use, some for ignoble.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us.

Zechariah 9:13

For I have bent Judah as my bow; I have made Ephraim its arrow. I will brandish your sons, O Zion, over your sons, O Greece, and wield you like a warrior's sword.

Lamentations 5:12

Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.

Isaiah 51:18

There is none to guide her among all the sons she has borne; there is none to take her by the hand among all the sons she has brought up.

Lamentations 2:21

In the dust of the streets lie the young and the old; my maidens and my young men have fallen by the sword; in the day of thy anger thou hast slain them, slaughtering without mercy.

Jeremiah 22:28

Is this man Coniah a despised, broken pot, a vessel no one cares for? Why are he and his children hurled and cast into a land which they do not know?

Jeremiah 19:1

Thus said the Lord, “Go, buy a potter's earthen flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests,

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as a useless vessel.