Isaiah 45:5-10

English Standard Version

⁵^(A)I am the Lord, and there is no other,
    besides me there is no God;
    ^(B)I equip you, though you do not know me,
⁶^(C)that people may know, from the rising of the sun
    and from the west, that there is none besides me;
    I am the Lord, and there is no other.
⁷I form light and create darkness;
    I make well-being and ^(D)create calamity;
    I am the Lord, who does all these things.

⁸^(E)“Shower, O heavens, from above,
    and ^(F)let the clouds rain down righteousness;
let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit;
    let the earth cause them both to sprout;
    I the Lord have created it.

⁹^(G)“Woe to him who strives with him who formed him,
    a pot among earthen pots!
^(H)Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’
    or ‘Your work has no handles’?
¹⁰Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’
    or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’”