Isaiah 29:16

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Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker,“He didn’t make me”? Or should the pottery say about the potter,“He doesn’t understand”?

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 9:19-21 : 19 You will say to me then,“Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?” 20 But who indeed are you– a mere human being– to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder,“Why have you made me like this?” 21 Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?
  • Ps 94:8-9 : 8 Take notice of this, you ignorant people! You fools, when will you ever understand? 9 Does the one who makes the human ear not hear? Does the one who forms the human eye not see?
  • Isa 45:9-9 : 9 The Lord Gives a Warning One who argues with his Creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter,“What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!” 10 Danger awaits one who says to his father,“What in the world are you fathering?” and to his mother,“What in the world are you bringing forth?” 11 This is what the LORD says, the Holy One of Israel, the one who formed him, concerning things to come:“How dare you question me about my children! How dare you tell me what to do with the work of my own hands!
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 Yet, LORD, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.
  • Jer 18:1-9 : 1 An Object Lesson from the Making of Pottery The LORD said to Jeremiah: 2 “Go down at once to the potter’s house. I will speak to you further there.” 3 So I went down to the potter’s house and found him working at his wheel. 4 Now and then there would be something wrong with the pot he was molding from the clay with his hands. So he would rework the clay into another kind of pot as he saw fit. 5 Then the LORD’s message came to me, 6 “I, the LORD, say:‘O nation of Israel, can I not deal with you as this potter deals with the clay? In my hands, you, O nation of Israel, are just like the clay in this potter’s hand.’ 7 There are times, Jeremiah, when I threaten to uproot, tear down, and destroy a nation or kingdom. 8 But if that nation I threatened stops doing wrong, I will cancel the destruction I intended to do to it. 9 And there are times when I promise to build up and establish a nation or kingdom. 10 But if that nation does what displeases me and does not obey me, then I will cancel the good I promised to do to it.
  • Acts 17:6 : 6 When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, screaming,“These people who have stirred up trouble throughout the world have come here too,
  • Isa 24:1 : 1 The Lord Will Judge the Earth Look, the LORD is ready to devastate the earth and leave it in ruins; he will mar its surface and scatter its inhabitants.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 45:9-11
    3 verses
    81%

    9The Lord Gives a Warning One who argues with his Creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter,“What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!”

    10Danger awaits one who says to his father,“What in the world are you fathering?” and to his mother,“What in the world are you bringing forth?”

    11This is what the LORD says, the Holy One of Israel, the one who formed him, concerning things to come:“How dare you question me about my children! How dare you tell me what to do with the work of my own hands!

  • Jer 18:2-6
    5 verses
    79%

    2“Go down at once to the potter’s house. I will speak to you further there.”

    3So I went down to the potter’s house and found him working at his wheel.

    4Now and then there would be something wrong with the pot he was molding from the clay with his hands. So he would rework the clay into another kind of pot as he saw fit.

    5Then the LORD’s message came to me,

    6“I, the LORD, say:‘O nation of Israel, can I not deal with you as this potter deals with the clay? In my hands, you, O nation of Israel, are just like the clay in this potter’s hand.’

  • Rom 9:20-21
    2 verses
    78%

    20But who indeed are you– a mere human being– to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder,“Why have you made me like this?”

    21Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?

  • Isa 64:8
    74%

    8Yet, LORD, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.

  • Jer 16:20
    74%

    20Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all.”

  • Isa 29:17
    73%

    17Changes Are Coming In just a very short time Lebanon will turn into an orchard, and the orchard will be considered a forest.

  • Job 38:14
    73%

    14The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features are dyed like a garment.

  • Isa 44:9-11
    3 verses
    73%

    9All who form idols are nothing; the things in which they delight are worthless. Their witnesses cannot see; they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame.

    10Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?

    11Look, all his associates will be put to shame; the craftsmen are mere humans. Let them all assemble and take their stand! They will panic and be put to shame.

  • Isa 29:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14Therefore I will again do an amazing thing for these people– an absolutely extraordinary deed. Wise men will have nothing to say, the sages will have no explanations.”

    15Those who try to hide their plans from the LORD are as good as dead, who do their work in secret and boast,“Who sees us? Who knows what we’re doing?”

  • Acts 7:50
    73%

    50Did my hand not make all these things?’

  • Job 10:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8Contradictions in God’s Dealings“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.

    9Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

  • Jer 33:2
    72%

    2“I, the LORD, do these things. I, the LORD, form the plan to bring them about. I am known as the LORD. I say to you,

  • Isa 41:24
    71%

    24Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent; the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting.

  • Isa 40:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18To whom can you compare God? To what image can you liken him?

    19A craftsman casts an idol; a metalsmith overlays it with gold and forges silver chains for it.

  • Isa 30:14
    70%

    14It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern.”

  • Isa 44:25
    70%

    25who frustrates the omens of the empty talkers and humiliates the omen readers, who overturns the counsel of the wise men and makes their advice seem foolish,

  • Isa 40:21
    70%

    21Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told to you since the very beginning? Have you not understood from the time the earth’s foundations were made?

  • Isa 54:16
    70%

    16Look, I create the craftsman, who fans the coals into a fire and forges a weapon. I create the destroyer so he might devastate.

  • Eccl 7:13
    70%

    13Wisdom Acknowledges God’s Orchestration of Life Consider the work of God: For who can make straight what he has bent?

  • Isa 14:16
    70%

    16Those who see you stare at you, they look at you carefully, thinking:“Is this the man who shook the earth, the one who made kingdoms tremble?

  • 2 Kgs 19:25
    70%

    25Certainly you must have heard! Long ago I worked it out. In ancient times I planned it; and now I am bringing it to pass. The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins.

  • Jer 51:17
    70%

    17All idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.

  • Jer 10:14
    70%

    14All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.

  • Isa 37:26
    69%

    26Certainly you must have heard! Long ago I worked it out, in ancient times I planned it, and now I am bringing it to pass. The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins.

  • Isa 10:15
    69%

    15Does an ax exalt itself over the one who wields it, or a saw magnify itself over the one who cuts with it? As if a scepter should brandish the one who raises it, or a staff should lift up what is not made of wood!

  • Isa 45:18
    69%

    18For this is what the LORD says, the one who created the sky– he is the true God, the one who formed the earth and made it; he established it, he did not create it without order, he formed it to be inhabited–“I am the LORD, I have no peer.

  • Job 4:17
    69%

    17“Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?

  • Job 33:6
    68%

    6Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.

  • Hos 8:6
    68%

    6That idol was made by a workman– it is not God! The calf idol of Samaria will be broken to bits.

  • Ps 115:8
    68%

    8Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.

  • Isa 41:20
    68%

    20I will do this so people will observe and recognize, so they will pay attention and understand that the LORD’s power has accomplished this, and that the Holy One of Israel has brought it into being.”

  • Hab 2:18
    68%

    18What good is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it? What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles? Why would its creator place his trust in it and make such mute, worthless things?

  • Job 31:15
    68%

    15Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?

  • Ps 135:18
    68%

    18Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.

  • Isa 14:27
    68%

    27Indeed, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has a plan, and who can possibly frustrate it? His hand is ready to strike, and who can possibly stop it?