In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.

In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.

Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?

Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

Though he heap up silver like dust, and pile up clothing like clay,

Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay.

It is changed like clay under the seal, and its features stand out like a garment.

You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, “He did not make me”; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?

I stirred up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, and he shall call upon my name; he shall trample on rulers as on mortar, as the potter treads clay.

“Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?

But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.

The Potter and the Clay

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:

And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter's hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.

“O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.

As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.

Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

And as you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom, but some of the firmness of iron shall be in it, just as you saw iron mixed with the soft clay.

And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly brittle.

As you saw the iron mixed with soft clay, so they will mix with one another in marriage, but they will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with clay.

just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. A great God has made known to the king what shall be after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”

Draw water for the siege; strengthen your forts; go into the clay; tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold!