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

锡安宝贵的众子好比精金，现在何竟算为窑匠手所做的瓦瓶？

锡安宝贝的孩子虽然好比精金，现在竟当作陶匠手所做的瓦瓶！

锡安宝贝的孩子虽然好比精金，现在竟当作陶匠手所做的瓦瓶！

锡安的宝贝子民本来贵如黄金，现在竟被视为陶匠制作的瓦器！

锡安尊贵的众民，本来和精金一样贵重；现在怎么竟被看为瓦器，好像陶匠手中所作的呢？

錫安寶貴的眾子好比精金，現在何竟算為窰匠手所做的瓦瓶？

錫安寶貝的孩子雖然好比精金，現在竟當作陶匠手所做的瓦瓶！

錫安寶貝的孩子雖然好比精金，現在竟當作陶匠手所做的瓦瓶！

錫安的寶貝子民本來貴如黃金，現在竟被視為陶匠製作的瓦器！

錫安尊貴的眾民，本來和精金一樣貴重；現在怎麼竟被看為瓦器，好像陶匠手中所作的呢？

錫安的兒女很寶貴，可與鍊淨的金評價，怎麼竟被算為瓦瓶，窰匠之手所作的啊！

郇之子民、寶若精金兮、奚視如陶人所製之瓦缶兮、

哀哉郇之赤子、昔為珍寶、可比精金、今則如陶人手所製之瓦器、

How the precious children of Zion, once worth their weight in gold, are now considered as pots of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!

The priceless children of Zion were worth their weight in gold. But now they are thought of as clay pots made by the hands of a potter.

The precious sons of Zion, worth their weight in fine gold, how they are regarded as earthen pots, the work of a potter’s hands!

See how the precious children of Jerusalem, worth their weight in fine gold, are now treated like pots of clay made by a common potter.

Zion’s precious children— once worth their weight in pure gold— how they are regarded as clay jars, the work of a potter’s hands!

The precious sons of Zion, Weighed against pure gold, How they are regarded as earthenware jars, The work of a potter’s hands!

The precious sons of Zion, Valuable as fine gold, How they are regarded as clay pots, The work of the hands of the potter!

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

Zion’s precious people— once worth their weight in pure gold— how they are regarded as clay jars, the work of a potter’s hands!

The precious sons of Zion were worth their weight in gold– Alas!– but now they are treated like broken clay pots, made by a potter.ג( Gimel)

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

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.

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.

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

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

When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.

Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain[ them] in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed,[ and] not pitied.

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?[ What] if God, willing to shew[ his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

[ 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 of all the sons[ that] she hath brought up.

[ Is] this man Coniah a despised broken idol?[ is he] a vessel wherein[ is] no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?