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Woe to you who strive with your Maker,
    earthen vessels with the potter![a]
Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’
    or ‘Your work has no handles’?
10 Woe to anyone who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’
    or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labour?’
11 Thus says the Lord,
    the Holy One of Israel, and its 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 with the potsherds, or with the potters
  2. Isaiah 45:11 Cn: Heb Ask me of things to come

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