Isaiah 45:10
Woe to him who says to a father, "What have you become the father of?" or to a woman, "With what do you travail?"
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Referenced Verses
- Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother. All the people shall say, Amen.
- Mal 1:6 : 6 "A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Hosts to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'
- Heb 12:9 : 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
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11Thus 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.
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13The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; For when it is time, he doesn't come to the opening of the womb.
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2"Oh, my son!" Oh, son of my womb! Oh, son of my vows!
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20But 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?"
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15Didn't he who made me in the womb make him? Didn't one fashion us in the womb?
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44Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use [this] proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
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6Do you thus requite Yahweh, Foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.
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26He who robs his father and drives away his mother, Is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
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25A foolish son brings grief to his father, And bitterness to her who bore him.
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12Though they bring up their children, Yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
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1Woe to the rebellious children, says Yahweh, who take counsel, but not of me; and who make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
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16Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother. All the people shall say, Amen.
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2Hear, heavens, And listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against me.
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20Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
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13That you turn your spirit against God, And let such words go out of your mouth?
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10Who has fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
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