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!

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、

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, 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,‘ This is what the Lord Almighty says: I will smash this nation and this city just as this potter’s jar is smashed and cannot be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.

It will break in pieces like pottery, shattered so mercilessly that among its pieces not a fragment will be found for taking coals from a hearth or scooping water out of a cistern.”

In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay; some are for special purposes and some for common use.

But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.

I will bend Judah as I bend my bow and fill it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and make you like a warrior’s sword.

Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.

“ Young and old lie together in the dust of the streets; my young men and young women have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered them without pity.

Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath— prepared for destruction?What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory—

Among all the children she bore there was none to guide her; among all the children she reared there was none to take her by the hand.

Is this man Jehoiachin a despised, broken pot, an object no one wants? Why will he and his children be hurled out, cast into a land they do not know?