Lamentations 4:2

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

The noble sons of Zion, and clothed with the best gold, how be they areckoned into earthen vessels, into the work of the hands of a potter?

Cross References

Isaiah 30:14

And it shall be made less, as a vessel of a potter is broken with full strong breaking; and a shard shall not be found of the gobbets, either remnants, thereof, in which shard a little fire shall be borne of burning, either a little of water shall be drawn of the ditch.

Isaiah 51:18

None there is that sustaineth it, of all the sons which it engendered; and none there is that taketh the hand thereof, of all the sons which it nourished.

Jeremiah 19:1

The Lord saith these things, Go thou, and take an earthen pottle of a potter, [and] of the elder men of the people, and of the elder men of the priests.

Jeremiah 19:11

And thou shalt say to them, The Lord of hosts saith these things, So I shall all-break this people, and this city, as the vessel of a potter is all-broken, which may no more be restored; and they shall be buried in Tophet, for none other place is to bury.

Jeremiah 22:28

Whether this man Jeconiah is an earthen vessel, and all-broken? whether a vessel without all-liking? Why be he and his seed cast away, and cast forth into a land which they knew not?

Lamentations 2:21

A child and an eld [or old] man lie on the earth withoutforth; my virgins and my young men fell down by sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thy strong vengeance, thou smotest and didest no mercy.

Lamentations 5:12

Princes were hanged [up] by the hand; they were not ashamed of the faces of eld [or old] men.

Hosea 8:8

Israel is devoured; now Israel is made as an unclean vessel among nations,

Zechariah 9:13

for I shall stretch forth to me Judah as a bow, I filled the land of Ephraim. And I shall raise thy sons, thou Zion, on thy sons, thou land of Greeks, and I shall set thee as the sword of strong men.

2 Corinthians 4:7

And we have this treasure in brittle vessels, that the worthiness [or the highness] be of God’s virtue, and not of us.

2 Timothy 2:20

But in a great house be not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of tree, and of earth; and so some be into honour, and some into despite.