Isaiah 45:5-12

New International Version

⁵ I am the Lord, and there is no other;^(A)
    apart from me there is no God.^(B)
I will strengthen you,^(C)
    though you have not acknowledged me,
⁶ so that from the rising of the sun
    to the place of its setting^(D)
people may know^(E) there is none besides me.^(F)
    I am the Lord, and there is no other.
⁷ I form the light and create darkness,^(G)
    I bring prosperity and create disaster;^(H)
    I, the Lord, do all these things.

⁸ “You heavens above, rain^(I) down my righteousness;^(J)
    let the clouds shower it down.
Let the earth open wide,
    let salvation^(K) spring up,
let righteousness flourish with it;
    I, the Lord, have created it.

⁹ “Woe to those who quarrel^(L) with their Maker,^(M)
    those who are nothing but potsherds^(N)
    among the potsherds on the ground.
Does the clay say to the potter,^(O)
    ‘What are you making?’^(P)
Does your work say,
    ‘The potter has no hands’?^(Q)
10 Woe to the one who says to a father,
    ‘What have you begotten?’
or to a mother,
    ‘What have you brought to birth?’

¹¹ “This is what the Lord says—
    the Holy One^(R) of Israel, and its Maker:^(S)
Concerning things to come,
    do you question me about my children,
    or give me orders about the work of my hands?^(T)
12 It is I who made the earth^(U)
    and created mankind on it.
My own hands stretched out the heavens;^(V)
    I marshaled their starry hosts.^(W)