Lexicon :: Strong's H2563 - ḥōmer

They said to each other, “Come, let’s make oven-fired bricks.” (They used brick for stone and asphalt for mortar.)

and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.

They piled them in countless heaps, and there was a terrible odor in the land.

“If a man consecrates to the LORD any part of a field that he possesses, your assessment of value will be proportional to the seed needed to sow it, at the rate of fifty silver shekels for every six bushels[fn] of barley seed.[fn]

The people were up all that day and night and all the next day gathering the quail ​— ​the one who took the least gathered sixty bushels[fn] ​— ​and they spread them out all around the camp.[fn]

how much more those who dwell in clay houses,

whose foundation is in the dust,

who are crushed like a moth!

“Please remember that you formed me like clay.

Will you now return me to dust?

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ash;

your defenses are made of clay.

Though he piles up silver like dust

and heaps up fine clothing like clay —

He throws me into the mud,

and I have become like dust and ashes.

I am just like you before God;

I was also pinched off from a piece of clay.

The earth is changed as clay is by a seal;

its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.

For a ten-acre[fn] vineyard will yield

only six gallons of wine,[fn]

and ten bushels[fn] of seed will yield

only one bushel of grain.[fn]

I will send him against a godless nation;

I will command him to go

against a people destined for my rage,

to take spoils, to plunder,

and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

You have turned things around,

as if the potter were the same as the clay.

How can what is made say about its maker,

“He didn’t make me”?

How can what is formed

say about the one who formed it,

“He doesn’t understand what he’s doing”?

“I have stirred up one from the north, and he has come,

one from the east who invokes my[fn] name.

He will march over rulers as if they were mud,

like a potter who treads the clay.

“Woe to the one who argues with his Maker —

one clay pot among many.[fn]

Does clay say to the one forming it,

‘What are you making? ’

Or does your work say,

‘He has no hands’?[fn]

Yet LORD, you are our Father;

we are the clay, and you are our potter;

we all are the work of your hands.

But the jar that he was making from the clay became flawed in the potter’s hand, so he made it into another jar, as it seemed right for him to do.

“House of Israel, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? ” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration. “Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

“The dry measure[fn] and the liquid measure[fn] will be uniform, with the liquid measure containing 5 ¹/₂ gallons[fn] and the dry measure holding half a bushel.[fn] Their measurement will be a tenth of the standard larger capacity measure.[fn]

“This is the contribution you are to offer: Three quarts[fn] from six bushels[fn] of wheat and[fn] three quarts from six bushels of barley.

So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and nine bushels of barley.[fn][fn]

Draw water for the siege;

strengthen your fortresses.

Step into the clay and tread the mortar;

take hold of the brick-mold!

You tread the sea with your horses,

stirring up the vast water.