Isaiah 30:14

It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. ¹  Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough ²  to scoop a hot coal from a fire ³  or to skim off water from a cistern.” ⁴ 

De 29:20; Job 27:22; Ps 2:9; Ps 31:12; Isa 27:11; Isa 47:14; Jer 13:14; Jer 19:10,11; Jer 48:38; Eze 5:11; Eze 7:4,9; Eze 8:18; Eze 9:10; Eze 15:3-8; Eze 24:14; Lu 4:2; Ro 8:32; Ro 11:21; 2Pe 2:4,5; Re 2:27

¹ tn Heb “Its shattering is like the shattering of a jug of [i.e., “made by”] potters, [so] shattered one cannot save [any of it].”

² tn The words “large enough” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

³ tn Heb “to remove fire from the place of kindling.”

⁴ tn On the meaning of גֶבֶא (geveh, “cistern”) see HALOT 170 s.v.