Lamentations 4:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

² Zion’s precious children – once worth their weight in pure gold   – how they are regarded as clay jars, the work of a potter’s hands!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² The precious sons of Zion, Comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, The work of the hands of the potter!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² The noble and precious sons of Zion, [once] worth their weight in fine gold–how they are esteemed [merely] as earthen pots or pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! [Isa. 30:14; Jer. 19:11; II Cor. 4:7.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

Common English Bible

² Zion’s precious children, once valued as pure gold— oh no!—now they are worth no more than clay pots made by a potter.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² BETH. The famous sons of Zion, and those clothed with the foremost gold: how they have become like earthen vessels, the work of the hands of a potter.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Beth. The noble sons of Sion and they that were clothed with the best gold: how are they esteemed as earthen vessels, the work of the potter's hands?

Lamentations 4:2 Tagairtí Cros

Isaiah 30:14

Its collapse will be like the shattering of a potter’s jar,  crushed to pieces, so that not even a fragment of pottery will be found among its shattered remains – no fragment large enough to take fire from a hearth or scoop water from a cistern.’

Isaiah 51:18

There is no one to guide her among all the children she has brought up; there is no one to take hold of her hand among all the offspring she has brought up.

Jeremiah 19:1

This is what the Lord says: ‘Go, buy a potter’s clay  jar. Take  some of the elders of the people and some of the leading priests

Jeremiah 19:11

and you are to proclaim to them, “This is what the Lord of Armies says: I will shatter these people and this city, as one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be mended. They will bury the dead in Topheth because there is no other place for burials.

Jeremiah 22:28

Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered pot, a jar no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they have not known?

Lamentations 2:21

Both young and old are lying on the ground in the streets. My young women and young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger, slaughtering without compassion.

Lamentations 5:12

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

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like discarded pottery.

Zechariah 9:13

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

2 Corinthians 4:7

Now we have this treasure in clay jars, so that this extraordinary power  may be from God and not from us.

2 Timothy 2:20

Now in a large house there are not only gold and silver vessels,  but also those of wood and clay; some for honourable  use and some for dishonourable.  ,