Lamentations 4:2

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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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lam 4:1
    83%

    1How the gold has grown dim, the fine gold has changed! The holy stones lie scattered at the head of every street.

  • Jer 18:4
    71%

    4But the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, so he remade it into another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make.

  • Isa 1:22
    70%

    22Your silver has become dross, your wine is diluted with water.

  • Isa 64:8
    70%

    8Do not be exceedingly angry, LORD, and do not remember our sins forever. Behold us, we are all your people.

  • Jer 6:2
    69%

    2I have likened the beautiful and delicate Daughter of Zion to her destruction.

  • Jer 18:6
    69%

    6“Can I not do with you, O house of Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Behold, like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.

  • Lam 2:10-12
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    69%

    10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and dressed themselves in sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground in despair.

    11My eyes are worn out from weeping, my inner being is in turmoil; my heart is poured out on the ground because of the destruction of my people, as children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

    12They cry out to their mothers, 'Where is the bread and the wine?' as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, and as they breathe their last in their mothers’ arms.

  • Jer 22:28
    69%

    28Is 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 1:6
    69%

    6All the splendor has departed from Daughter Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; they flee without strength before the pursuer.

  • Ps 144:12
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    12May our sons be like well-nurtured plants growing up in their youth, our daughters like pillars carved for a palace.

  • Lam 2:1
    69%

    1How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion in his anger with a cloud! He has thrown down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth and has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

  • Zech 11:13
    69%

    13Then the LORD said to me, 'Throw it to the potter—the splendid price at which they valued me!' So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD to the potter.

  • Mic 4:10-11
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    68%

    10Writhe in pain and groan, Daughter Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you must leave the city and camp in the open field. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued. There the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.

    11But now many nations are gathered against you, saying, 'Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gloat over Zion.'

  • Isa 51:20
    68%

    20Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street like antelopes caught in a net. They are filled with the wrath of the Lord, with the rebuke of your God.

  • Jer 8:19
    68%

    19Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: 'Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?' Why have they provoked me to anger with their idols, with their worthless foreign gods?

  • Jer 9:19
    68%

    19'Hear the word of the Lord, you women; let your ears receive the words of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail and one another to mourn.'

  • Mic 3:12
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    12Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become a high place overgrown with thickets.

  • Isa 30:14
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    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.'

  • Ezek 22:18
    68%

    18Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead inside a furnace—they are the dross of silver.

  • Lam 4:10
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    10The compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Lam 2:20
    68%

    20Look, LORD, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their own children, the little ones they have cherished? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

  • Jer 19:11
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    11And 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.’

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    5For you took my silver and my gold and carried my precious treasures into your temples.

  • Ps 102:14
    68%

    14You will arise and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor; the appointed time has come.

  • Jer 4:31
    68%

    31I hear a cry like that of a woman in labor, anguish like a woman giving birth to her first child—the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands: 'Woe is me! My life is fainting before the killers.'

  • Jer 14:3
    68%

    3The nobles sent their servants for water; they went to the cisterns but found no water. They returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and humiliated, covering their heads.

  • Isa 1:8
    68%

    8The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.

  • Isa 29:16
    68%

    16You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, 'You did not make me'? Can the pot say to the potter, 'You know nothing'?

  • Nah 3:10
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    10Yet she went into exile, carried away into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at every street corner. Lots were cast for her nobles, and all her great men were bound in chains.

  • Mic 2:9
    67%

    9You drive the women of my people out of their pleasant homes. You take away my splendor from their children forever.

  • Lam 4:3
    67%

    3Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young; but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness.

  • Jer 10:9
    67%

    9Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz—the work of the craftsman and of the goldsmith. Their clothing is blue and purple, all made by skilled workers.

  • Nah 2:2
    67%

    2The scatterer has come against your face. Guard the fortress, watch the road, strengthen your loins, muster all your strength!

  • Jer 19:1
    67%

    1This is what the LORD said: Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and of the priests with you.

  • Jer 2:13-14
    2 verses
    67%

    13For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

    14Is Israel a servant, a slave born in the household? Why then has he become plunder?

  • Isa 3:16
    67%

    16The LORD says, 'Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, walking with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, taking short, mincing steps, and jingling ornaments on their feet,

  • Lam 4:5-7
    3 verses
    67%

    5Those who once feasted on delicacies now lie desolate in the streets; those who were brought up in fine crimson embrace ash heaps.

    6The iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, with no hand turned to help her.

    7Her nobles were purer than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than coral, their appearance like sapphires.

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    67%

    8The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not turn back his hand from destroying. He caused rampart and wall to lament; they languished together.

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    13Rise and thresh, Daughter Zion, for I will make your horn like iron and your hooves like bronze, and you will crush many nations. You will dedicate their ill-gotten gains to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

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    9You will break them with an iron rod; You will shatter them like a potter's vessel.

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    67%

    17Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed for Jacob that his neighbors become his foes; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

  • Ps 115:4
    67%

    4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

  • Lam 1:4
    67%

    4The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed festivals. All her gates are desolate; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she is in bitter anguish.