Isaiah 29:16
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16 (A)You turn things upside down!
Shall the potter be regarded as the clay,
that the thing made should say of its maker,
“He did not make me”;
or the thing formed say of him who formed it,
“He has no understanding”?
Romans 9:19-21
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19 You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For (A)who can resist his will?” 20 But who are you, O man, (B)to answer back to God? (C)Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” 21 (D)Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump (E)one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?
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Isaiah 64:8
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8 (A)But now, O Lord, you are our Father;
(B)we are the clay, and you are our potter;
(C)we are all the work of your hand.
Isaiah 45:9-11
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9 (A)“Woe to him who strives with him who formed him,
a pot among earthen pots!
(B)Does the clay say to him who forms 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 labor?’”
11 Thus says (C)the Lord,
the Holy One of Israel, and the one who formed him:
(D)“Ask me of things to come;
will you command me (E)concerning my children and (F)the work of my hands?[a]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 45:11 A slight emendation yields will you question me about my children, or command me concerning the work of my hands?
Psalm 94:8-9
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8 (A)Understand, O dullest of the people!
Fools, when will you be wise?
9 (B)He who planted the ear, does he not hear?
He who formed the eye, does he not see?
Jeremiah 18:1-10
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The Potter and the Clay
18 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Arise, and go down to (A)the potter's house, and there I will let you hear[a] my words.” 3 So I went down to (B)the potter's house, and there he was working at his wheel. 4 And the vessel he was making of clay was (C)spoiled in the potter's hand, and (D)he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.
5 Then the word of the Lord came to me: 6 “O house of Israel, (E)can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. (F)Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. 7 If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will (G)pluck up and break down and destroy it, 8 and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, (H)turns from its evil, (I)I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it. 9 And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will (J)build and plant it, 10 and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it.
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- Jeremiah 18:2 Or will cause you to hear
Isaiah 24:1
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Judgment on the Whole Earth
24 Behold, (A)the Lord will empty the earth[a] and make it desolate,
and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 24:1 Or land; also throughout this chapter
Acts 17:6
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6 And when they could not find them, (A)they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
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