Isaiah 45:8-12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁸ Shower, O heavens, from above,
    and let the skies rain down righteousness;
let the earth open, that salvation may spring up,^[a]
    and let it cause righteousness to sprout up also;
    I the Lord have created it.^(A)

⁹ Woe to those who strive with their Maker,
    earthen vessels with the potter!^[b]
Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, “What are you making”?
    or “Your work has no handles”?^(B)
10 Woe to anyone who says to a father, “What are you fathering?”
    or to a woman, “With what are you in labor?”
¹¹ Thus says the Lord,
    the Holy One of Israel and its Maker:
Will you question me^[c] about my children
    or command me concerning the work of my hands?^(C)
12 I made the earth
    and created humankind upon it;
it was my hands that stretched out the heavens,
    and I commanded all their host.^(D)