Isaiah 45:9-13

New Century Version

⁹ “How terrible it will be for those who argue with the God who made them.
    They are like a piece of broken pottery among many pieces.
The clay does not ask the potter,
    ‘What are you doing?’
The thing that is made doesn’t say to its maker,
    ‘You have no hands.’
¹⁰ How terrible it will be for the child who says to his father,
    ‘Why are you giving me life?’
How terrible it will be for the child who says to his mother,
    ‘Why are you giving birth to me?’”

¹¹ This is what the Lord,
    the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker, says:
“You ask me about what will happen.
    You question me about my children.
    You give me orders about what I have made.
¹² I made the earth
    and all the people living on it.
With my own hands I stretched out the skies,
    and I commanded all the armies in the sky.
¹³ I will bring Cyrus to do good things,
    and I will make his work easy.
He will rebuild my city
    and set my people free
without any payment or reward.
    The Lord All-Powerful says this.”