and there was none to comfort you of all the children whom you bore; and there was none to take hold of your hand, not even of all the children whom you have reared.

For I have bent you, O Judah, for Myself as a bow, I have filled Ephraim; and I will raise up your children, O Zion, against the children of the Greeks, and I will handle you as the sword of a warrior.

CHSEN. The child and old man have lain down in the street; my virgins and my young men have gone into captivity; You have slain them with the sword and with famine; in the day of Your wrath You have mangled them, You have not spared.

Princes were hanged up by their hands; the elders were not honored.

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.

and you shall say, Thus says the Lord, Thus will I break in pieces this people, and this city, even as an earthen vessel is broken in pieces which cannot be mended again.

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

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?

and so that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, so that the extraordinary character of the power may be of God and not of us;

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.