Lamentations 4:2 - Modern King James Version

² The precious sons of Zion are weighed against pure gold; how they are counted as earthen vessels, the work of a potter's hand!

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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 He shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces. He shall have no pity, so that there shall not be found in the breaking of it a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the pit.

Isaiah 51:18

No guide is for her among all the sons she has borne; and none takes her by the hand of all the sons that she made to grow.

Jeremiah 19:1

So says Jehovah, Go and get a potter's earthen jar, and assemble from the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests.

Jeremiah 19:11

and shall say to them, So says Jehovah of Hosts, Even so I will break this people of this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel that cannot be made whole again. And they shall bury them in Tophet until there is no place left to bury.

Jeremiah 22:28

Is this man Coniah a despised broken jar? Is he a vessel in which there is no pleasure? Why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they do not know?

Lamentations 2:21

Young and old lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of Your anger; You have killed and not pitied.

Lamentations 5:12

Rulers were hanged by the hand; the faces of elders were not honored.

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up; now they shall be among the nations as a vessel in which there is no pleasure.

Zechariah 9:13

For I have bent Judah for me as a bow; I filled it with Ephraim, and I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and make you as the sword of a mighty man.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us;

2 Timothy 2:20

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honor, and some to dishonor.