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Lamentations 4:2

Lamentations chapter 4 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

KJV

King James Version · 1611

The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

Context

v.1How is the gold become dim! how is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

v.2This passage

v.3Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Lamentations 5:12

    Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

  • Jeremiah 22:28

    Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel wherein none delighteth? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they know not?

  • 2 Corinthians 4:7

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

  • Romans 9:21

    Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?

  • Jeremiah 19:11

    and shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter’s vessel, that cannot be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place to bury.

  • Isaiah 51:18

    There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand among all the sons that she hath brought up.