“O house of Israel, (A)can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. (B)Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

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He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Like clay(A) in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand,(B) Israel.

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(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.

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Yet you, Lord, are our Father.(A)
    We are the clay, you are the potter;(B)
    we are all the work of your hand.(C)

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20 But who are you, O man, (A)to answer back to God? (B)Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” 21 (C)Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump (D)one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?

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20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?(A) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,(B) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[a](C) 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9

(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’?

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“Woe to those who quarrel(A) with their Maker,(B)
    those who are nothing but potsherds(C)
    among the potsherds on the ground.
Does the clay say to the potter,(D)
    ‘What are you making?’(E)
Does your work say,
    ‘The potter has no hands’?(F)

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15 (A)Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or (B)do you begrudge my generosity?’[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 20:15 Or is your eye bad because I am good?

15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’(A)

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And the vessel he was making of clay was (A)spoiled in the potter's hand, and (B)he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.

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But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.

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23 And because the king saw (A)a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, (B)‘Chop down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till (C)seven periods of time pass over him,’

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23 “Your Majesty saw a holy one,(A) a messenger, coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump, bound with iron and bronze, in the grass of the field, while its roots remain in the ground. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven; let him live with the wild animals, until seven times pass by for him.’(B)

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34 “For (A)who has known the mind of the Lord,
    or (B)who has been his counselor?”

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34 “Who has known the mind of the Lord?
    Or who has been his counselor?”[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 11:34 Isaiah 40:13