Gird yourselves with sackcloth in her streets; and lament upon her roofs, and in her streets, and in her ways; howl, all of you, with weeping.

The word of the valley of Zion. What has happened to you, that you now are all going up to the housetops, which help you not?

Jeconiah is dishonored as a good for nothing vessel; for he is thrown out and cast forth into a land which he knew not.

Howl, O you shepherds, and cry; lament, you rams of the flock: for your days have been completed for slaughter, and you shall fall as the choice rams.

You shall rule them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them in pieces as a potter's vessel.

And its fall shall be as the breaking of an earthen vessel, [as] small fragments of a pitcher, so that you should not find among them a sherd, with which you might take up fire, and with which you should draw a little water.

Israel is swallowed up: now he has become among the nations as a worthless vessel.

Or does not the potter have authority over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and the other for dishonor?

But what if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make known His power, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath having been prepared for destruction,

Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor.

Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the [latter], he will be a vessel for honor, having been consecrated and useful to the Master, having been prepared for every good work.

'And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; they shall be smashed to pieces like clay vessels'--