The priest will then take holy water ¹  in a pottery jar, and take some ²  of the dust ³  that is on the floor of the tabernacle, and put it into the water.

The roof of my mouth ¹  is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. ²  You ³  set me in the dust of death. ⁴ 

I grind them as fine as the dust of the ground; I crush them and stomp on them like clay ¹  in the streets.

They worshiped ¹  the disgusting idols ²  in blatant disregard of the Lord’s command. ³ 

Only his flesh has pain for himself, ¹  and he mourns for himself.” ² 

You will break them ¹  with an iron scepter; ²  you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’” ³ 

I grind them as fine windblown dust; ¹  I beat them underfoot ²  like clay ³  in the streets.

For he knows what we are made of; ¹  he realizes ²  we are made of clay. ³ 

Like a coating of glaze ¹  over earthenware are fervent ²  lips with an evil heart. ³ 

along with the plants by the mouth of the river. ¹  All the cultivated land near the river will turn to dust and be blown away. ² 

“Go down at once ¹  to the potter’s house. I will speak to you further there.” ² 

‘The Lord God of Israel who rules over all ¹  says, “Take these documents, both the sealed copy of the deed of purchase and the unsealed copy. Put them in a clay jar so that they may be preserved for a long time to come.”’ ² 

Anything their carcass may fall on will become unclean. An oven or small stove must be smashed to pieces; they are unclean, and they will stay unclean ¹  to you.

They are then to take other stones and replace those stones, ¹  and he is to take other plaster and replaster the house.

He divided the three hundred men into three units. ¹  He gave them all trumpets and empty jars with torches inside them. ² 

The Lord’s words are absolutely reliable. ¹  They are as untainted as silver purified in a furnace on the ground, where it is thoroughly refined. ² 

I will make streams flow down the slopes and produce springs in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water and the arid land into springs.

This man, Jeconiah, will be like a broken pot someone threw away. He will be like a clay vessel ¹  that no one wants. ²  Why will he and his children be forced into exile? Why will they be thrown out into a country they know nothing about? ³ 

When they were not able to bring him in because of the crowd, they removed the roof ¹  above Jesus. ²  Then, ³  after tearing it out, they lowered the stretcher the paralytic was lying on.

Gideon took a hundred men to the edge of the camp ¹  at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guards. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars they were carrying. ²