Lexicon :: Strong's H2563 - ḥōmer

‘And if a man consecrates to the LORD part of a field of his own property, then your valuation shall be proportionate to the seed needed for it; a homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

‘How much more [will He blame and charge] those who dwell in houses (bodies) of clay,

Whose foundations are in the dust,

Who are crushed like a moth.

‘Remember now, that You have made me as clay;

So will You turn me into dust again?

“Your memorable sayings are [worthless, merely] proverbs of ashes;

Your defenses are defenses of [crumbling] clay.

“Though he heaps up silver like dust

And piles up clothing like clay,

“God has cast me into the mire [a swampland of crisis],

And I have become [worthless] like dust and ashes.

“Behold, I belong to God like you;

I too was formed out of the clay.

“The earth is changed like clay into which a seal is pressed;

And the things [of the earth] stand out like a [multi-colored] garment.

“For ten [fn]acres of vineyard will yield [only] [fn]one bath of wine,

And a homer ([fn]six bushels) of seed will produce [only] one ephah of grain.”

I send Assyria against a godless nation

And commission it against the people of My wrath

To take the spoil and to seize the plunder,

And to trample them down like mud in the streets.

You turn things upside down [with your perversity]!

Shall the potter be considered equal with the clay,

That the thing that is made would say to its maker, “He did not make me”;

Or the thing that is formed say to him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?

“I have stirred up and put into action [fn]one from the north [the king of Persia, Cyrus the Great], and he has come;

From the rising of the sun he will call on My Name [in prayer].

And he will trample on [the Babylonian] officials as on mortar,

Even as a potter treads clay.”

“Woe (judgment is coming) to him who quarrels with his Maker—

A [worthless] piece of broken pottery among other broken pieces [equally worthless]!

Shall the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you doing?’

Or does the thing say, ‘He has no hands’?

Yet, O LORD, You are our Father;

We are the clay, and You our Potter,

And we all are the work of Your hand.

“This is the offering that you shall offer: a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat; a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley;

Draw water for a [long, continued] siege!

Strengthen your fortresses!

Go down to the clay pits, trample the mortar!

Prepare the brick kiln [to burn bricks for the rampart]!

You have trampled on the sea with Your horses,

On the surge of many waters.