⁹ You shall break them with a rod of iron
    and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”^(A)

¹⁴ its breaking is like that of a potter’s vessel
    that is smashed so ruthlessly
that among its fragments not a sherd is found
    for taking fire from the hearth
    or dipping water out of the cistern.^(A)

²⁷ to rule^[a] them with an iron scepter,
    as when clay pots are shattered—^(A)