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10 Woe to the[a] one who says to his father,
    ‘What are you begetting?’
        or to a woman, ‘To what are you giving birth?’!”

11 This is what the Lord[b] says,
    the Creator of the signs:

“Question me about my children,[c]
    or give me orders about the work of my hands.
12 I myself made the earth
    and personally created humankind upon it.
My own hands stretched out the skies;
    I marshaled all their starry hosts.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 45:10 So 1QIsaa; MT lacks the
  2. Isaiah 45:11 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX 1QIsaa corrector reads the Lord, the Holy One of Israel
  3. Isaiah 45:11 So 1QIsaa LXX; Lit. my sons and daughters; MT reads says, and its creator: Question me of things to come about my children