Lamentations 4:2

The Passion Translation

The precious children of Zion, once worth their weight in the finest gold, are now regarded as jars of clay made by a potter’s hands.

Cross References

Isaiah 30:14

It will break into pieces like shattered pottery, smashed so ruthlessly that not even a fragment big enough to pick up a hot coal or to scoop water from a cistern will be found!”

Isaiah 51:18

There are none of Zion’s children left, none to guide her home and take her by the hand, none among all the children she has raised.

Jeremiah 19:1

Yahweh said to me, “Go to the pottery shop and buy a clay jar. Then take along some of the city officials and leading priests

Jeremiah 19:11

and say to them: ‘Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies, says to you: See this smashed clay jar? That is what I will do to you. I will smash these people and this city as one smashes a potter’s vessel, never to be repaired. You will bury your dead here in Topheth, this unclean place; so many of you will die that there won’t be enough room to bury them.

Jeremiah 22:28

“Is this man Coniah now thrown away like a worthless, broken pot that no one wants? Why are he and his offspring hurled out and taken away to a land they knew not?

Lamentations 2:21

“Both children and the elderly alike are lying dead in the dusty streets. My young men and maidens have both fallen by the sword. You have killed them on the day of your anger; you slaughtered them without mercy.

Lamentations 5:12

Our leaders have been taken and hanged; our elders have received no respect.

2 Corinthians 4:7

We are like common clay jars that carry this glorious treasure within, so that this immeasurable power will be seen as God’s, not ours.

2 Timothy 2:20

In a palace you find many kinds of containers and tableware for many different uses. Some are beautifully inlaid with gold or silver, but some are made of wood or earthenware; some of them are used for banquets and special occasions, and some for everyday use.