³⁸ On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation, for I have broken Moab like ^(A)a vessel for which no one cares, declares the Lord.

²⁰ Now in ^(A)a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, ^(B)some for honorable use, some for dishonorable. ²¹ Therefore, ^(C)if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable,^[a] he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ^(D)ready for every good work.

^21 (A)Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump ^(B)one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? ²² What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience ^(C)vessels of wrath ^(D)prepared for destruction, ²³ in order to make known ^(E)the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he ^(F)has prepared beforehand for glory—

¹² And after the deportation to Babylon: ^(A)Jechoniah was the father of ^(B)Shealtiel,^[a] and ^(C)Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, ¹³ and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor, ¹⁴ and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud, ¹⁵ and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob, ¹⁶ and Jacob the father of ^(D)Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.