Isaiah 45:10

American Standard Version (1901)

Woe unto him that saith unto a father, What begettest thou? or to a woman, With what travailest thou?

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • Mal 1:6 : 6 A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is mine honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 9Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

  • 11Thus saith Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: Ask me of the things that are to come; concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands, command ye me.

  • 9Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith Jehovah: shall I that cause to bring forth shut [the womb] ? saith thy God.

  • 13The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for it is time he should not tarry in the place of the breaking forth of children.

  • Jer 20:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

    15Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man-child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

  • 10Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] every one of them doth curse me.

  • 21What wilt thou say, when he shall set over thee as head those whom thou hast thyself taught to be friends to thee? shall not sorrows take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail?

  • 2What, my son? and what, O son of my womb? And what, O son of my vows?

  • 20Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?

  • 15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

  • 72%

    44Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use [this] proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

    45Thou art the daughter of thy mother, that loatheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

  • 6Do ye thus requite Jehovah, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? He hath made thee, and established thee.

  • 27who say to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

  • 3For thus saith Jehovah concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land:

  • 26He that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth away his mother, Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.

  • 11There is a generation that curse their father, And bless not their mother.

  • 25A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.

  • 12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, so that not a man shall be left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

  • 21He that begetteth a fool [doeth it] to his sorrow; And the father of a fool hath no joy.

  • 21Then shalt thou say in thy heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?

  • 1Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, that take counsel, but not of me; and that make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

  • 16Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • 2Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for Jehovah hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

  • 20See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

  • 19These two things are befallen thee, who shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort thee?

  • 9Now why dost thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee, is thy counsellor perished, that pangs have taken hold of thee as of a woman in travail?

  • Isa 57:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.

    4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

  • 14Behold, he travaileth with iniquity; Yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

  • 4Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My Father, thou art the guide of my youth?

  • Isa 29:15-16
    2 verses
    69%

    15Woe unto them that hide deep their counsel from Jehovah, and whose works are in the dark, and that say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

    16Ye turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him that made it, He made me not; or the thing formed say of him that formed it, He hath no understanding?

  • 18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

  • 13That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth?

  • 1Thus saith Jehovah, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.

  • Isa 3:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him] ; for what his hands have done shall be done unto him.

    12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they that lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

  • 14Give them, O Jehovah--what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

  • 6A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is mine honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

  • 19But I said, How I will put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! and I said, Ye shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.

  • 37Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

  • 6Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child: wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

  • 25Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.

  • 27Thy first father sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.

  • 3And it shall come to pass that, when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of Jehovah; and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.

  • 10Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?

  • 18Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

  • 7Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?