Isaiah 45:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Cursed is he who says to a father, To what are you giving life? or to a woman, What are you in birth-pains with?

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.
  • Mal 1:6 : 6 A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name?
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 9 Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?

  • 11 The Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, says, Will you put a question to me about the things which are to come, or will you give me orders about my sons, and the work of my hands?

  • 9 Will I by whom the birth was started, not make it complete? says the Lord. Will I who make children come to birth, let them be kept back? says your God.

  • 13 The pains of a woman in childbirth will come on him: he is an unwise son, for at this time it is not right for him to keep his place when children come to birth.

  • Jer 20:14-15
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    14 A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.

    15 A curse on the man who gave the news to my father, saying, You have a male child; making him very glad.

  • 10 Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.

  • 21 What will you say when he puts over you those whom you yourself have made your friends? will not pains take you like a woman in childbirth?

  • 2 What am I to say to you, O Lemuel, my oldest son? and what, O son of my body? and what, O son of my oaths?

  • 20 But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?

  • 15 Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?

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    44 See, in every common saying about you it will be said, As the mother is, so is her daughter.

    45 You are the daughter of your mother whose soul is turned in disgust from her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters who were turned in disgust from their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

  • 6 Is this your answer to the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your father who has given you life? He has made you and given you your place.

  • 27 Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.

  • 3 For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:

  • 26 He who is violent to his father, driving away his mother, is a son causing shame and a bad name.

  • 11 There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.

  • 25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

  • 12 Even though their children have come to growth I will take them away, so that not a man will be there; for their evil-doing will be complete and they will be put to shame because of it.

  • 21 He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.

  • 21 Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when I was by myself, where then were these?

  • 1 Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:

  • 16 Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.

  • 2 Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me.

  • 20 Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?

  • 19 These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?

  • 9 Now why are you crying so loudly? is there no king in you? has destruction come on your wise helper? so that pains have taken you like the pains of a woman in childbirth:

  • Isa 57:3-4
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    3 But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.

    4 Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,

  • 14 That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.

  • 4 Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?

  • Isa 29:15-16
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    15 Cursed are those who go deep to keep their designs secret from the Lord, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who has knowledge of our acts?

    16 You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?

  • 18 Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

  • 13 So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

  • 1 This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.

  • Isa 3:11-12
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    11 Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings will come on him.

    12 As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.

  • 14 O Lord, what will you give them? Give them bodies which may not give birth and breasts without milk.

  • 6 A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name?

  • 19 But I said, How am I to put you among the children, and give you a desired land, a heritage of glory among the armies of the nations? and I said, You are to say to me, My father; and not be turned away from me.

  • 37 Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?

  • 6 Put the question and see if it is possible for a man to have birth-pains: why do I see every man with his hands gripping his sides, as a woman does when the pains of birth are on her, and all faces are turned green?

  • 25 Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.

  • 27 Your first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone against my word.

  • 3 And if anyone goes on acting as a prophet, then his father and his mother who gave him life will say to him, You may not go on living, for you are saying what is false in the name of the Lord; and his father and his mother will put a sword through him when he does so.

  • 10 Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.

  • 18 Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?

  • 7 Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?