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

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 say to them,‘ Thus says the Lord of hosts:“ Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, which cannot be made whole again; and they shall bury them in Tophet till there is no place to bury.

And He shall break it like the breaking of the potter’s vessel, Which is broken in pieces; He shall not spare. So there shall not be found among its fragments A shard to take fire from the hearth, Or to take water from the cistern.”

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.

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

For I have bent Judah, My bow, Fitted the bow with Ephraim, And raised up your sons, O Zion, Against your sons, O Greece, And made you like the sword of a mighty man.”

Princes were hung up by their hands, And elders were not respected.

“ Young and old lie On the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men Have fallen by the sword; You have slain them in the day of Your anger, You have slaughtered and not pitied.

Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,

There is no one to guide her Among all the sons she has brought forth; Nor is there any who takes her by the hand Among all the sons she has brought up.

“ Is this man Coniah a despised, broken idol— A vessel in which is no pleasure? Why are they cast out, he and his descendants, And cast into a land which they do not know?