Verse 14

It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern.”

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 2:9 : 9 You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’”
  • Jer 19:10-11 : 10 The LORD continued,“Now break the jar in front of those who have come here with you. 11 Tell them the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says,‘I will do just as Jeremiah has done. I will smash this nation and this city as though it were a potter’s vessel which is broken beyond repair. The dead will be buried here in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.’
  • Rom 11:21 : 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.
  • 2 Pet 2:4-5 : 4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell and locked them up in chains in utter darkness, to be kept until the judgment, 5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when God brought a flood on an ungodly world,
  • Rev 2:27 : 27 he will rule them with an iron rod and like clay jars he will break them to pieces,
  • Deut 29:20 : 20 The LORD will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger will rage against that man; all the curses written in this scroll will fall upon him and the LORD will obliterate his name from memory.
  • Job 27:22 : 22 It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.
  • Ps 31:12 : 12 I am forgotten, like a dead man no one thinks about; I am regarded as worthless, like a broken jar.
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its branches get brittle, they break; women come and use them for kindling. For these people lack understanding, therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them.
  • Isa 47:14 : 14 Look, they are like straw, which the fire burns up; they cannot rescue themselves from the heat of the flames. There are no coals to warm them, no firelight to enjoy.
  • Jer 13:14 : 14 And I will smash them like wine bottles against one another, children and parents alike. I will not show any pity, mercy, or compassion. Nothing will keep me from destroying them,’ says the LORD.”
  • Jer 48:38 : 38 On all the housetops in Moab and in all its public squares there will be nothing but mourning. For I will break Moab like an unwanted jar. I, the LORD, affirm it!
  • Ezek 5:11 : 11 “Therefore, as surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominable practices, I will withdraw; my eye will not pity you, nor will I spare you.
  • Ezek 7:4 : 4 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare you. For I will hold you responsible for your behavior, and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that I am the LORD!
  • Ezek 7:9 : 9 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare you. For your behavior I will hold you accountable, and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who is striking you.
  • Ezek 8:18 : 18 Therefore I will act with fury! My eye will not pity them nor will I spare them. When they have shouted in my ears, I will not listen to them.”
  • Ezek 9:10 : 10 But as for me, my eye will not pity them nor will I spare them; I hereby repay them for what they have done.”
  • Ezek 15:3-8 : 3 Can wood be taken from it to make anything useful? Or can anyone make a peg from it to hang things on? 4 No! It is thrown in the fire for fuel; when the fire has burned up both ends of it and it is charred in the middle, will it be useful for anything? 5 Indeed! If it was not made into anything useful when it was whole, how much less can it be made into anything when the fire has burned it up and it is charred? 6 “Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Like the wood of the vine is among the trees of the forest which I have provided as fuel for the fire– so I will provide the residents of Jerusalem as fuel. 7 I will set my face against them– although they have escaped from the fire, the fire will still consume them! Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them. 8 I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
  • Ezek 24:14 : 14 “‘I the LORD have spoken; judgment is coming and I will act! I will not relent, or show pity, or be sorry! I will judge you according to your conduct and your deeds, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”
  • Luke 4:2 : 2 where for forty days he endured temptations from the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was famished.
  • Rom 8:32 : 32 Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all– how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?