Isaiah 29:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Your perversion! as clay is the potter esteemed? That the work saith of its maker, `He hath not made me?' And the framed thing said of its framer, `He did not understand?'

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  • Rom 9:19-21 : 19 Thou wilt say, then, to me, `Why yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?' 20 nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form `it', Why me didst thou make thus? 21 hath not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make the one vessel to honour, and the one to dishonour?
  • Ps 94:8-9 : 8 Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely? 9 He who planteth the ear doth He not hear? He who formeth the eye doth He not see?
  • Isa 45:9-9 : 9 Wo `to' him who is striving with his Former, (A potsherd with potsherds of the ground!) Doth clay say to its Framer, `What dost thou?' And thy work, `He hath no hands?' 10 Wo `to' him who is saying to a father, `What dost thou beget?' Or to a wife, `What dost thou bring forth? 11 Thus said Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel, and his Former: Ask Me of the things coming concerning My sons, Yea, concerning the work of My hands, ye command Me.'
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 And now, O Jehovah, thou `art' our Father, We `are' the clay, and Thou our Framer, And the work of Thy hand -- all of us.
  • Jer 18:1-9 : 1 The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, 2 Rise, and thou hast gone down `to' the potter's house, and there I cause thee to hear My words; 3 and I go down `to' the potter's house, and lo, he is doing a work on the stones, 4 and marred is the vessel that he is making, as clay in the hand of the potter, and he hath turned and he maketh it another vessel, as it was right in the eyes of the potter to make. 5 And there is a word of Jehovah to me, saying: 6 As this potter am I not able to do to you? O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah. Lo, as clay in the hand of the potter, So `are' ye in My hand, O house of Israel. 7 The moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, To pluck up and to break down, and to destroy, 8 And that nation hath turned from its evil, Because I have spoken against it, Then I have repented of the evil that I thought to do to it. 9 And the moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, to build, and to plant, 10 And it hath done the evil thing in Mine eyes, So as not to hearken to My voice, Then I have repented of the good That I have spoken of doing to it.
  • Acts 17:6 : 6 and not having found them, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the city rulers, calling aloud -- `These, having put the world in commotion, are also here present,
  • Isa 24:1 : 1 Lo, Jehovah is emptying the land, And is making it waste, And hath overturned `it on' its face, And hath scattered its inhabitants.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 45:9-11
    3 verses
    81%

    9Wo `to' him who is striving with his Former, (A potsherd with potsherds of the ground!) Doth clay say to its Framer, `What dost thou?' And thy work, `He hath no hands?'

    10Wo `to' him who is saying to a father, `What dost thou beget?' Or to a wife, `What dost thou bring forth?

    11Thus said Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel, and his Former: Ask Me of the things coming concerning My sons, Yea, concerning the work of My hands, ye command Me.'

  • Jer 18:2-6
    5 verses
    79%

    2Rise, and thou hast gone down `to' the potter's house, and there I cause thee to hear My words;

    3and I go down `to' the potter's house, and lo, he is doing a work on the stones,

    4and marred is the vessel that he is making, as clay in the hand of the potter, and he hath turned and he maketh it another vessel, as it was right in the eyes of the potter to make.

    5And there is a word of Jehovah to me, saying:

    6As this potter am I not able to do to you? O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah. Lo, as clay in the hand of the potter, So `are' ye in My hand, O house of Israel.

  • Rom 9:20-21
    2 verses
    78%

    20nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form `it', Why me didst thou make thus?

    21hath not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make the one vessel to honour, and the one to dishonour?

  • Isa 64:8
    74%

    8And now, O Jehovah, thou `art' our Father, We `are' the clay, and Thou our Framer, And the work of Thy hand -- all of us.

  • Jer 16:20
    74%

    20Doth man make for himself gods, And they -- no gods?

  • Isa 29:17
    73%

    17Is it not yet a very little, And turned hath Lebanon to a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned?

  • Job 38:14
    73%

    14It turneth itself as clay of a seal And they station themselves as clothed.

  • Isa 44:9-11
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    73%

    9Framers of a graven image `are' all of them emptiness, And their desirable things do not profit, And their own witnesses they `are', They see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed.

    10Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out -- not profitable?

    11Lo, all his companions are ashamed, As to artizans -- they `are' of men, All of them gather together, they stand up, They fear, they are ashamed together.

  • Isa 29:14-15
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    14Therefore, lo, I am adding to do wonderfully with this people, A wonder, and a marvel, And perished hath the wisdom of its wise ones, And the understanding of its intelligent ones hideth itself.'

    15Wo `to' those going deep from Jehovah to hide counsel, And whose works have been in darkness. And they say, `Who is seeing us? And who is knowing us?'

  • Acts 7:50
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    50hath not My hand made all these things?

  • Job 10:8-9
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    73%

    8Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!

    9Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.

  • Jer 33:2
    72%

    2Thus said Jehovah its maker, Jehovah its former, at establishing it, Jehovah `is' His name:

  • Isa 41:24
    71%

    24Lo, ye `are' of nothing, and your work of nought, An abomination -- it fixeth on you.

  • Isa 40:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18And unto whom do ye liken God, And what likeness do ye compare to Him?

    19The graven image poured out hath a artizan, And a refiner with gold spreadeth it over, And chains of silver he is refining.

  • Isa 30:14
    70%

    14And He hath broken it As the breaking of the potters' bottle, Beaten down -- He doth not spare, Nor is there found, in its beating down, A potsherd to take fire from the burning, And to draw out waters from a ditch.

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    70%

    25Making void the tokens of devisers, And diviners it maketh mad, Turning the wise backward, And their knowledge it maketh foolish.

  • Isa 40:21
    70%

    21Do ye not know -- do ye not hear? Hath it not been declared from the first to you? Have ye not understood `From' the foundations of the earth?

  • Isa 54:16
    70%

    16Lo, I -- I have prepared an artizan, Blowing on a fire of coals, And bringing out an instrument for his work, And I have prepared a destroyer to destroy.

  • Eccl 7:13
    70%

    13See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?

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    16Thy beholders look to thee, to thee they attend, Is this the man causing the earth to tremble, Shaking kingdoms?

  • 2 Kgs 19:25
    70%

    25Hast thou not heard from afar, it I made, From days of old that I formed it? Now I have brought it in, And it becometh a desolation, Ruinous heaps `are' fenced cities,

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    70%

    17Brutish hath been every man by knowledge, Put to shame hath been every refiner by a graven image, For false `is' his molten image, And there is no breath in them.

  • Jer 10:14
    70%

    14Brutish is every man by knowledge, Put to shame is every refiner by a graven image, For false `is' his molten image. And there is no breath in them.

  • Isa 37:26
    69%

    26Hast thou not heard from afar? -- it I did, From days of old -- that I formed it. Now, I have brought it in, And it is to make desolate, Ruinous heaps -- fenced cities,

  • Isa 10:15
    69%

    15-- Doth the axe glorify itself Against him who is hewing with it? Doth the saw magnify itself Against him who is shaking it? As a rod waving those lifting it up! As a staff lifting up that which is not wood!

  • Isa 45:18
    69%

    18For thus said Jehovah, Creator of heaven, He is God, Former of earth, and its Maker, He established it -- not empty He prepared it, For inhabiting He formed it: `I `am' Jehovah, and there is none else.

  • Job 4:17
    69%

    17`Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?

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    6Lo, I `am', according to thy word, for God, From the clay I -- I also, have been formed.

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    8Nor do they mutter through their throat, Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them.

  • Isa 41:20
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    20So that they see, and know, And regard, and act wisely together, For the hand of Jehovah hath done this, And the Holy One of Israel hath prepared it.

  • Hab 2:18
    68%

    18What profit hath a graven image given That its former hath graven it? A molten image and teacher of falsehood, That trusted hath the former on his own formation -- to make dumb idols?

  • Job 31:15
    68%

    15Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.

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    18Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them.

  • Isa 14:27
    68%

    27For Jehovah of Hosts hath purposed, And who doth make void? And His hand that is stretched out, Who doth turn it back?'