Isaiah 29:16

Webster's Bible (1833)

You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him who made it, He didn't make me; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, He has no understanding?

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  • Rom 9:19-21 : 19 You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?" 20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?" 21 Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
  • Ps 94:8-9 : 8 Consider, you senseless among the people; You fools, when will you be wise? 9 He who implanted the ear, won't he hear? He who formed the eye, won't he see?
  • Isa 45:9-9 : 9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker--a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, "What are you making?" or your work, "He has no hands?" 10 Woe to him who says to a father, "What have you become the father of?" or to a woman, "With what do you travail?" 11 Thus says Yahweh, 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 you me.
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
  • Jer 18:1-9 : 1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, 2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear my words. 3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he was making a work on the wheels. 4 When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. 5 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 6 House of Israel, can't I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel. 7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it; 8 if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them. 9 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; 10 if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.
  • Acts 17:6 : 6 When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where the context allows may be also correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} before the rulers of the city, crying, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
  • Isa 24:1 : 1 Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants of it.

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    9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker--a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, "What are you making?" or your work, "He has no hands?"

    10 Woe to him who says to a father, "What have you become the father of?" or to a woman, "With what do you travail?"

    11 Thus says Yahweh, 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 you me.

  • Jer 18:2-6
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    2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.

    3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he was making a work on the wheels.

    4 When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

    5 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

    6 House of Israel, can't I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

  • Rom 9:20-21
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    20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

    21 Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

  • Isa 64:8
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    8 But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

  • Jer 16:20
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    20 Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods?

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    17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

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    14 It is changed as clay under the seal, And stands forth as a garment.

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    9 Those who fashion an engraved image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses don't see, nor know: that they may be disappointed.

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  • Isa 29:14-15
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    14 therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

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  • Acts 7:50
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    50 Didn't my hand make all these things?'

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    8 'Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether; Yet you destroy me.

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    24 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing; an abomination is he who chooses you.

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    18 To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare to him?

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  • Isa 30:14
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    14 He shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces of it a broken piece with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."

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    13 Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?

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    18 For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn't create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: I am Yahweh; and there is no one else.

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    15 Didn't he who made me in the womb make him? Didn't one fashion us in the womb?

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    18 Those who make them will be like them; Yes, everyone who trusts in them.

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    27 For Yahweh of Hosts has purposed, and who shall annul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?