Isaiah 64:8

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 29:16 : 16 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”?
  • Isa 45:9 : 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!”
  • Jer 18:2-6 : 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.’
  • Rom 9:20-24 : 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? 22 But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction? 23 And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory– 24 even us, whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
  • Isa 63:16 : 16 For you are our father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not recognize us. You, LORD, are our father; you have been called our protector from ancient times.
  • Eph 2:10 : 10 For we are his creative work, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we can do them.
  • Isa 44:21 : 21 Remember these things, O Jacob, O Israel, for you are my servant. I formed you to be my servant; O Israel, I will not forget you!
  • Ps 100:3 : 3 Acknowledge that the LORD is God! He made us and we belong to him; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
  • Ps 119:73 : 73 י(Yod) Your hands made me and formed me. Give me understanding so that I might learn your commands.
  • Deut 32:6 : 6 Is this how you repay the LORD, you foolish, unwise people? Is he not your father, your Creator? He has made you and established you.
  • Job 10:8-9 : 8 Contradictions in God’s Dealings“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely. 9 Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?
  • Isa 43:7 : 7 everyone who belongs to me, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed– yes, whom I made!
  • Isa 44:24 : 24 The 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,
  • Ps 138:8 : 8 The LORD avenges me. O LORD, your loyal love endures. Do not abandon those whom you have made!
  • Exod 4:22 : 22 You must say to Pharaoh,‘This is what the LORD has said,“Israel is my son, my firstborn,
  • Gal 3:26 : 26 For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.
  • Gal 3:29 : 29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to the promise.

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    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.’

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  • Rom 9:20-21
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    69%

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