Parallel Verses King James Version The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! Darby Bible Translation The sons of Zion, so precious, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! World English Bible The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! Young's Literal Translation The precious sons of Zion, Who are comparable with fine gold, How have they been reckoned earthen bottles, Work of the hands of a potter. Lamentations 4:2 Parallel Commentary Geneva Study BibleThe precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen {b} pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! (b) Which are of small value and have no honour.Lamentations 4:2 Parallel Commentaries Library The Children of the Poor. THE CHILDREN OF THE POOR. The young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.--LAMENTATIONS iv., 4. The writer of these words bewailed a state of War and Captivity--a state of things in which the great relations of human life are broken up and desecrated. But it is strange to find that the most flourishing forms of civilization involve conditions very similar to this. For, if any man will push beyond the circle of his daily associations, and enter the regions of the abject poor, he will … E. H. Chapin—Humanity in the City It Will be Attempted to Give a Complete List of his Writings In Sermons of St. Bernard on the Passing of Malachy The Upbringing of Jewish Children Lamentations Cross References 2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. Isaiah 30:14 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 bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit. Jeremiah 19:1 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests; Jeremiah 19:11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD 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 them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury. Jump to Previous Best Bottles Clay Comparable Considered Earthen Esteemed Fine Gold Hands Jars Once Pitchers Pots Potter Potter's Precious Price Reckoned Regarded Valued Weighed Weight Work Worth ZionJump to Next Best Bottles Clay Comparable Considered Earthen Esteemed Fine Gold Hands Jars Once Pitchers Pots Potter Potter's Precious Price Reckoned Regarded Valued Weighed Weight Work Worth ZionLinks Lamentations 4:2 NIVLamentations 4:2 NLT Lamentations 4:2 ESV Lamentations 4:2 NASB Lamentations 4:2 KJV Lamentations 4:2 Bible Apps Lamentations 4:2 Biblia Paralela Lamentations 4:2 Chinese Bible Lamentations 4:2 French Bible Lamentations 4:2 German Bible Lamentations 4:2 Commentaries Bible Hub |