³⁸ On all the house-tops of Moab and in its streets there is weeping everywhere; for Moab has been broken like a vessel in which there is no pleasure, says the Lord.

²⁸ Is this man Coniah a broken vessel of no value? is he a vessel in which there is no pleasure? why are they violently sent out, he and his seed, into a land which is strange to them?

³⁴ Give cries of grief, you keepers of sheep; give cries for help, rolling yourselves in the dust, you chiefs of the flock: for the days of your destruction have fully come, and I will send you in all directions, and your fall will be like that of the males of the flock.

¹ The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?

²⁷ And he will be ruling them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of the potter they will be broken, even as I have power from my Father:

²⁰ Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but others of wood and earth, and some which are honoured and some without honour.

²¹ If a man makes himself clean from these, he will be a vessel for honour, made holy, ready for the master's use, ready for every good work.

²¹ Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame?

²² What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:

⁸ Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.

¹⁴ And he will let it be broken as a potter's vessel is broken: it will be smashed to bits without mercy; so that there will not be a bit in which one may take fire from the fireplace, or water from the spring.

³ In their streets they are covering themselves with haircloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their public places, there is crying and bitter weeping.

⁹ They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.