Cross references
Lamentations 4:2
How the precious sons of Zion,
once worth their weight in pure gold,
are now esteemed as jars of clay,
the work of a potter’s hands!
Lamentations 4:2 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 30:14 (7 votes) and Jeremiah 19:11 (6 votes). 17 other verses point back to it. It links with 12 other books, from Deuteronomy 28 to 2 Timothy 2.
Which verses does Lamentations 4:2 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Isaiah 30:147 votes
It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”
- Jeremiah 19:116 votes
and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.
- Romans 9:21–236 votes
Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use? What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction? …
- 2 Timothy 2:205 votes
A large house contains not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay. Some indeed are for honorable use, but others are for common use.
- 2 Corinthians 4:74 votes
Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
- Isaiah 51:183 votes
Among all the sons she bore, there is no one to guide her; among all the sons she brought up, there is no one to take her hand.
- Lamentations 5:123 votes
Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
- Zechariah 9:133 votes
For I will bend Judah as My bow and fit it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, O Zion, against the sons of Greece. I will make you like the sword of a mighty man.
- Jeremiah 22:282 votes
Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?
- Lamentations 2:212 votes
Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.
Which verses point to Lamentations 4:2?
The 10 strongest of 17.