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I make light and I also make darkness.
    I make peace as well as trouble.
I am the Lord.
    I do all these things.
Let justice pour down from the sky like rain!
    Let the earth be ready to receive it!
Then salvation and righteousness will grow together,
    like strong plants.
I am the Lord,
    and I will cause it to happen.’

It will be very bad for people who quarrel with their Maker. They are like pieces of a pot that are lying on the ground among all the other pieces. The clay does not say to the potter, ‘What do you think you are you making?’ The pot does not say to the potter, ‘Your work is useless!’

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