Isaiah 45:9-13

Revised Standard Version

⁹ “Woe to him who strives with his Maker,
    an earthen vessel with the potter!^[a]
Does the clay say to him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’
    or ‘Your work has no handles’?
¹⁰ Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’
    or to a woman, ‘With what are you in travail?’”
¹¹ Thus says the Lord,
    the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker:
“Will you question me^[b] about my children,
    or command me concerning the work of my hands?
¹² I made the earth,
    and created man upon it;
it was my hands that stretched out the heavens,
    and I commanded all their host.
¹³ I have aroused him in righteousness,
    and I will make straight all his ways;
he shall build my city
    and set my exiles free,
not for price or reward,”
    says the Lord of hosts.