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!”
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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!
12I made the earth; I created the people who live on it. It was me– my hands stretched out the sky. I give orders to all the heavenly lights.
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?”
16Your 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”?
19You will say to me then,“Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?”
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?
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.’
8Yet, LORD, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.
16Look, I create the craftsman, who fans the coals into a fire and forges a weapon. I create the destroyer so he might devastate.
50Did my hand not make all these things?’
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!
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?
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.”
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.
12A blacksmith works with his tool and forges metal over the coals. He forms it with hammers; he makes it with his strong arm. He gets hungry and loses his energy; he drinks no water and gets tired.
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,
20Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all.”
18To whom can you compare God? To what image can you liken him?
5To whom can you compare and liken me? Tell me whom you think I resemble, so we can be compared!
15Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?
17“Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?
7So, now the LORD says,‘You have not listened to me. But you have made me angry by the things that you have done. Thus you have brought harm on yourselves.’
25“To whom can you compare me? Whom do I resemble?” says the Holy One.
13Why do you forget the LORD, who made you, who stretched out the sky and founded the earth? Why do you constantly tremble all day long at the anger of the oppressor, when he makes plans to destroy? Where is the anger of the oppressor?
13From this day forward I am he; no one can deliver from my power; I will act, and who can prevent it?”
24Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent; the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting.
13Be sure of this! The LORD of Heaven’s Armies has decreed: The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing.
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.
13For here he is! He formed the mountains and created the wind. He reveals his plans to men. He turns the dawn into darkness and marches on the heights of the earth. The LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, is his name!”
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.
4The Lord’s Dispute against the Sinful Priesthood Do not let anyone accuse or contend against anyone else: for my case is against you priests!
4But I thought,“I have worked in vain; I have expended my energy for absolutely nothing.” But the LORD will vindicate me; my God will reward me.
24The Lord Empowers Cyrus This is what the LORD, your protector, says, the one who formed you in the womb:“I am the LORD, who made everything, who alone stretched out the sky, who fashioned the earth all by myself,
8O sky, rain down from above! Let the clouds send down showers of deliverance! Let the earth absorb it so salvation may grow, and deliverance may sprout up along with it. I, the LORD, create it.
2“Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!”
6Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.
23Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him,‘You have done what is wicked’?