The precious sons of Zion,
    worth their weight in (A)fine gold,
how they are regarded as (B)earthen pots,
    the work of a potter's hands!

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14 and its breaking is (A)like that of a potter's vessel
    that is smashed so ruthlessly
that among its fragments not a shard is found
    with which to take fire from the hearth,
    or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

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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—

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11 and shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, (A)as one breaks a potter's vessel, (B)so that it can never be mended. (C)Men shall bury in Topheth because there will be no place else to bury.

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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.

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Treasure in Jars of Clay

But we have this treasure in (A)jars of clay, (B)to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.

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13 For (A)I have bent Judah as my bow;
    I have made Ephraim its arrow.
I will stir up your sons, O Zion,
    against your sons, (B)O Greece,
    and wield you like a warrior's sword.

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12 (A)Princes are hung up by their hands;
    (B)no respect is shown to the elders.

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18 (A)There is none to guide her
    among all the sons she has borne;
there is none to take her by the hand
    among all the sons she has brought up.

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21 In the dust of the streets
    (A)lie the young and the old;
(B)my young women and my young men
    have fallen by the sword;
(C)you have killed them in the day of your anger,
    slaughtering (D)without pity.

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28 Is this man (A)Coniah a despised, broken pot,
    a (B)vessel no one cares for?
Why are he and his children hurled and cast
    into a (C)land that they do not know?

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