In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.
In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.
But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
Now in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honor, and some for dishonor.
its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay.
You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay.
As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
Whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they shall not cling to one another, even as iron does not mingle with clay.
Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what shall happen hereafter: and the dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.
You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, "He didn't make me;" or the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding?"
"I have raised up one from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name; and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.
Woe to him who strives with his Maker-- a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, 'What are you making?' or your work, 'He has no hands?'
But now, the LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
House of Israel, can't I do with you as this potter? says the LORD. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.
How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.
It is changed as clay under the seal, and stands forth as a garment.
Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
The words of the LORD are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:
Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
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