Lamentations 4:2

Zion Is Punished

¹ How dark the gold has become,
How the pure gold has changed!
The sacred stones are poured out
At the corner of every street.
² The precious sons of Zion,
Weighed against fine gold,
How they are regarded as earthen jars,
The work of a potter’s hands!
³ Even jackals offer the breast,
They nurse their young;
But the daughter of my people has become cruel
Like ostriches in the wilderness.

Earthen Vessels

Lifted Up

Zion

Jeremiah 19:11

and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Just so will I break this people and this city, even as one breaks a potter’s vessel, which cannot again be repaired; and they will bury in Topheth because there is no other place for burial.

Isaiah 30:14

Whose collapse is like the smashing of a potter’s jar,
So ruthlessly shattered
That a sherd will not be found among its pieces
To take fire from a hearth
Or to scoop water from a cistern.”

Isaiah 51:18

There is none to guide her among all the sons she has borne,
Nor is there one to take her by the hand among all the sons she has reared.

Jeremiah 22:28

“Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered jar?
Or is he an undesirable vessel?
Why have he and his descendants been hurled out
And cast into a land that they had not known?

Lamentations 2:21

On the ground in the streets
Lie young and old;
My virgins and my young men
Have fallen by the sword.
You have slain them in the day of Your anger,
You have slaughtered, not sparing.

Lamentations 5:12

Princes were hung by their hands;
Elders were not respected.

Zechariah 9:13

For I will bend Judah as My bow,
I will fill the bow with Ephraim.
And I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece;
And I will make you like a warrior’s sword.

Romans 9:21-23

Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use?

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves;

2 Timothy 2:20

Now in a large house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also vessels of wood and of earthenware, and some to honor and some to dishonor.