Isaiah 45:9
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9 Woe to those who strive with their Maker,
earthen vessels with the potter![a]
Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, “What are you making”?
or “Your work has no handles”?(A)
Footnotes
- 45.9 Cn: Heb with the potsherds or with the potters
Isaiah 64:8
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8 Yet, O Lord, you are our Father;
we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we are all the work of your hand.(A)
Romans 9:20-21
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20 But who indeed are you, a human, to argue with God? Will what is molded say to the one who molds it, “Why have you made me like this?”(A) 21 Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one object for special use and another for ordinary use?(B)
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Jeremiah 18:6
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6 Can I not do with you, O house of Israel, just as this potter has done? says the Lord. Just like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.(A)
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Isaiah 29:16
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16 You turn things upside down!
Shall the potter be regarded as the clay?
Shall the thing made say of its maker,
“He did not make me,”
or the thing formed say of the one who formed it,
“He has no understanding”?(A)
Isaiah 10:15
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15 Shall the ax vaunt itself over the one who wields it
or the saw magnify itself against the one who handles it?
As if a rod should raise the one who lifts it up,
or as if a staff should lift the one who is not wood!(A)
Proverbs 21:30
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30 No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel
can avail against the Lord.(A)
Job 40:8-9
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8 Will you even put me in the wrong?
Will you condemn me that you may be justified?(A)
9 Have you an arm like God,
and can you thunder with a voice like his?(B)
Jeremiah 50:24
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24 I set a snare for you, and you were caught, O Babylon,
but you did not know it;
you were discovered and seized
because you challenged the Lord.(A)
Psalm 2:2-9
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2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and his anointed, saying,(A)
3 “Let us burst their bonds apart
and cast their cords from us.”
4 He who sits in the heavens laughs;
the Lord has them in derision.(B)
5 Then he will speak to them in his wrath
and terrify them in his fury, saying,(C)
6 “I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill.”(D)
7 I will tell of the decree of the Lord:
He said to me, “You are my son;
today I have begotten you.(E)
8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage
and the ends of the earth your possession.(F)
9 You shall break them with a rod of iron
and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”(G)
Job 15:24-26
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24 distress and anguish terrify them;
they prevail against them like a king prepared for battle.
25 Because they stretched out their hands against God
and bid defiance to the Almighty,[a](A)
26 running stubbornly against him
with a thickly bossed shield;
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- 15.25 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
Exodus 9:16-17
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16 But this is why I have let you live: to show you my power and to make my name resound through all the earth.(A) 17 You are still exalting yourself against my people by not letting them go.
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1 Corinthians 10:22
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22 Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?(A)
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