Verse 2

The precious children of Zion, worth their weight in fine gold, how they are regarded as earthen vessels, the work of a potter's hands!

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  • Jer 19:11 : 11 And say to them, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty says: I will break this people and this city as one breaks a potter’s jar that cannot be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury.’
  • Isa 30:14 : 14 'Its collapse will be like that of a jar shattered into pieces so small that no fragment can be used to scoop fire from the hearth or draw water from a cistern.'
  • Isa 51:18 : 18 There is no one to guide her among all the sons she has borne, and no one to take her by the hand among all the sons she has raised.
  • Jer 22:28 : 28 Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, an object no one cares for? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?
  • Lam 2:21 : 21 Young and old lie together in the dust of the streets; my young women and young men have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered them without pity.
  • Lam 5:12 : 12 Princes were hung by their hands; elders were shown no respect.
  • Zech 9:13 : 13 For I have bent Judah as my bow, and I have filled it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and make you like a warrior’s sword.
  • Rom 9:21-23 : 21 Does not the potter have the right over the clay to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? 22 What if God, wishing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath prepared for destruction? 23 And what if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of mercy, whom he prepared beforehand for glory—
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.
  • 2 Tim 2:20 : 20 In a large house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay; some are for honorable use and some for dishonorable.