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“Woe to him who strives with his Maker,
    an earthen vessel with the potter![a]
Does the clay say to him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’
    or ‘Your work has no handles’?
10 Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’
    or to a woman, ‘With what are you in travail?’”
11 Thus says the Lord,
    the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker:
“Will you question me[b] about my children,
    or command me concerning the work of my hands?

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 45:9 Cn: Heb potsherds or potters
  2. Isaiah 45:11 Cn: Heb Ask me of things to come

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