Lamentations 4:2 - Y'all Version Bible

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

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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 a potter’s jar shattering, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

Isaiah 51:18

There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth; and there is no one who takes her by the hand among all the sons whom she has brought up.

Jeremiah 19:1

Thus said YHWH, “Go, and buy a clay jay from a potter and take some of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests

Jeremiah 19:11

and tell them, ‘YHWH Almighty says: “Even so I will break this people and this city as one breaks a potter’s jar, so that it can’t be made whole again. They will bury in Topheth until there is no place to bury.

Jeremiah 22:28

Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which no one delights? Why are they cast out, he and his offspring, and cast into a land which they don’t know?

Lamentations 2:21

“The youth and the old man 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 slaughtered, and not pitied.

Lamentations 5:12

Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.

Zechariah 9:13

For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me. I have loaded the bow with Ephraim. I will stir up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and will make you like the sword of a mighty man.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in jars of clay, so that the extraordinary power is from God and not from us.

2 Timothy 2:20

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