Lamentations 4:2
New King James Version
2 The precious sons of Zion,
[a]Valuable as fine gold,
How they are [b]regarded (A)as clay pots,
The work of the hands of the potter!
Footnotes
- Lamentations 4:2 Lit. Weighed against
- Lamentations 4:2 reckoned
Isaiah 30:14
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14 And (A)He shall break it like the breaking of the potter’s vessel,
Which is broken in pieces;
He shall not spare.
So there shall not be found among its fragments
[a]A shard to take fire from the hearth,
Or to take water from the cistern.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 30:14 A piece of broken pottery
Romans 9:21-23
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21 Does not the (A)potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make (B)one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?
22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering (C)the vessels of wrath (D)prepared for destruction, 23 and that He might make known (E)the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had (F)prepared beforehand for glory,
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Jeremiah 19:11
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11 and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: (A)“Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, which cannot be [a]made whole again; and they shall (B)bury them in Tophet till there is no place to bury.
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- Jeremiah 19:11 restored
2 Timothy 2:20
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20 But in a great house there are not only (A)vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor.
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2 Corinthians 4:7
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Cast Down but Unconquered
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, (A)that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.
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Zechariah 9:13
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13 For I have bent Judah, My bow,
Fitted the bow with Ephraim,
And raised up your sons, O Zion,
Against your sons, O Greece,
And made you like the sword of a mighty man.”
Lamentations 5:12
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12 Princes were hung up by their hands,
And elders were not respected.
Isaiah 51:18
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18 There is no one to guide her
Among all the sons she has brought forth;
Nor is there any who takes her by the hand
Among all the sons she has brought up.
Lamentations 2:21
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21 “Young(A) and old lie
On the ground in the streets;
My virgins and my young men
Have fallen by the (B)sword;
You have slain them in the day of Your anger,
You have slaughtered and not pitied.
Jeremiah 22:28
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28 “Is this man [a]Coniah a despised, broken idol—
(A)A vessel in which is no pleasure?
Why are they cast out, he and his descendants,
And cast into a land which they do not know?
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 22:28 See note at v. 24
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