Isaiah 30:14 “It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no frag…”

Isaiah 30:14

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.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.

World English Bible

He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

American Standard Version

And he shall break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd wherewith to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.

Geneva Bible 1599

And the breaking thereof is like the breaking of a potters pot, which is broken without pitie, and in the breaking thereof is not found a sheard to take fire out of the hearth, or to take water out of the pit.

Darby Translation

And he shall break it as the breaking of a potter's vessel, that is broken in pieces unsparingly; and in the pieces of it there shall not be found a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to scoop water out of the cistern.

Young's Literal Translation

And He hath broken it As the breaking of the potters' bottle, Beaten down — He doth not spare, Nor is there found, in its beating down, A potsherd to take fire from the burning, And to draw out waters from a ditch.

Bible in Basic English

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.

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Cross references

“he shall break”

Psalm 2:9 Revelation 2:27 Jeremiah 19:10 Jeremiah 19:11

Psalm 2:9 · BSB

You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery. ”

Revelation 2:27 · BSB

He will rule them with an iron scepter and shatter them like pottery —just as I have received authority from My Father.

Jeremiah 19:10 · BSB

Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,

Jeremiah 19:11 · BSB

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 un…

“he shall not”

Ezekiel 24:14 Romans 11:21 Isaiah 27:11 Deuteronomy 29:20 Job 27:22 Jeremiah 13:14

Ezekiel 24:14 · BSB

I, the LORD, have spoken; the time is coming, and I will act. I will not refrain or show pity, nor will I relent. I will judge you according to your ways and deeds,’ declares the Lord GOD.”

Romans 11:21 · BSB

For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly not spare you either.

Isaiah 27:11 · BSB

When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

Deuteronomy 29:20 · BSB

The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven

Job 27:22 · BSB

It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.

Jeremiah 13:14 · BSB

I will smash them against one another, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no mercy or pity or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.’”

“so that”

Isaiah 47:14 Psalm 31:12 Jeremiah 48:38 Luke 4:2 Ezekiel 15:3–8

Isaiah 47:14 · BSB

Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.

Psalm 31:12 · BSB

I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.

Jeremiah 48:38 · BSB

On all the rooftops of Moab and in the public squares, everyone is mourning; for I have shattered Moab like an unwanted jar,” declares the LORD.

Luke 4:2 · BSB

where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry.

Ezekiel 15:3–8 · BSB

Can wood be taken from it to make something useful? Or can one make from it a peg on which to hang utensils?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

13this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly— in an instant!

15For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence— but you were not willing.”

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