⁹ You will break them with a rod of iron^[a];^(A)
    you will dash them to pieces^(B) like pottery.^(C)”

¹⁴ It will break in pieces like pottery,^(A)
    shattered so mercilessly
that among its pieces not a fragment will be found
    for taking coals from a hearth
    or scooping water out of a cistern.”

² How the precious children of Zion,^(A)
    once worth their weight in gold,
are now considered as pots of clay,
    the work of a potter’s hands!