There is no one to guide her among all the sons she has borne; and no one takes her by the hand of all the sons that she has raised.

For I have bent Judah for Me as a bow, filled it with Ephraim, and stirred up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and made you as the sword of a mighty man.

Young and old lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered and not pitied.

Rulers were hung up by the hand; the presence of elders was not honored.

And He shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces. He shall not spare, so that there shall not be found in the fragments of it a shard with which to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the cistern.

and shall say to them, Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again. And they shall bury them in Tophet until there is no place left to bury.

Is this man Coniah a despised and broken vessel? Is he an object in which there is no pleasure? Why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they do not know?

Does not the potter have authority over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor?

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

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not from us.

But 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.