Lamentations 4:2 Cross References - ECB

² The esteemed sons of Siyon, balanced to pure gold, how they are reckoned as pottery bottles, the work of the hands of the former!

¹⁴ And he breaks it as breaking the bag of the former - crushed; he spares not: so that no potsherd is found in the fracture thereof to take fire from the burning, or to strip water from the dugout.

¹⁸ There is neither one to guide her among all the sons whom she birthed; nor is there any, of all the sons she nourished, who holds her by the hand.

¹¹ and say to them, Thus says Yah Veh Sabaoth: Thus I break this people and this city, as one breaks an instrument of the former that it cannot be healed again: and they entomb them in Topheth until there is no place to entomb.

²⁸ Is this man Kon Yah a despised splattered idol? An instrument wherein is no delight? Why are they cast out, he and his seed, - cast into a land they know not?

²¹ The lad and the aged lie on the earth in the outways; my virgins and my young men fall by the sword; you slaughter them in the day of your wrath - slaughter and spare not.

¹² governors are hanged by their hand; the faces of elders are not esteemed:

¹³ when I bend Yah Hudah for me, fill the bow with Ephrayim, and waken your sons, O Siyon, against your sons, O Yavan, and set you as the sword of a mighty.

²¹ Or has not the potter authority over the clay - to make of the same lump one vessel indeed to honor and another to dishonor? ²² And if Elohim wills to indicate his wrath and to make known his ability, bears in much patience the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction: ²³ and to make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, whom he previously prepared for glory,

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CLAY VESSELS
And we have this treasure in clay vessels; that the excellency of the dynamis be of Elohim and not of us.

²⁰ And in a mega house there are vessels - not only of gold and of silver but also of wood and of clay; and some indeed to honor and some to dishonor: