Lamentations 4:2 - English Standard Version 2016

² The precious sons of Zion, worth their weight in fine gold, how they are regarded as earthen pots, 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

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

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.

Jeremiah 19:1

Thus says the Lord, “Go, buy a potter’s earthenware flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests,

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.

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 that they do not know?

Lamentations 2:21

In the dust of the streets lie the young and the old; my young women and my young men have fallen by the sword; you have killed them in the day of your anger, slaughtering without pity.

Lamentations 5:12

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

Hosea 8:8

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

Zechariah 9:13

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

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.

2 Timothy 2:20

Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable.