Isa 30:14, Jer 19:11, 22:28, Lam 2:21, 5:12, Rom 9:21-23, 2Cor 4:7 | ESV | STEP | and its breaking is like that of a potter’s vessel that is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a shard is found with which to take fire from the hearth , or to dip up water out of the cistern .

Isaiah 30:14

14 and its breaking is ^alike that of a potter’s vessel
that is smashed so ruthlessly
that among its fragments not a shard is found
with which to take fire from the hearth,
or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

Jeremiah 19:11

11 and shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, ^bas one breaks a potter’s vessel, ^cso that it can never be mended. ^dMen shall bury in Topheth because there will be no place else to bury.

Jeremiah 22:28

28 Is this man ^eConiah a despised, broken pot,
a ^fvessel no one cares for?
Why are he and his children hurled and cast
into a ^gland that they do not know?

Lamentations 2:21

21 In the dust of the streets
^hlie the young and the old;
ⁱmy young women and my young men
have fallen by the sword;
^jyou have killed them in the day of your anger,
slaughtering ^kwithout pity.

Lamentations 5:12

12 ^lPrinces are hung up by their hands;
^mno respect is shown to the elders.

Romans 9:21-23

21 ⁿHas the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump ^oone vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? 22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience ^pvessels of wrath ^qprepared for destruction, 23 in order to make known ^rthe riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he ^shas prepared beforehand for glory—

2 Corinthians 4:7

Treasure in Jars of Clay

7 But we have this treasure in ^tjars of clay, ^uto show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.