17 “Can a mortal be righteous before God?
Can a man be more pure than his Maker?” (A)

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Come, let’s worship and bow down;
let’s kneel before the Lord our Maker.(A)

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31 The one who oppresses the poor person insults his Maker,(A)
but one who is kind to the needy honors him.(B)

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On that day people will look to their Maker and will turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.(A)

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16 You have turned things around,
as if the potter were the same as the clay.
How can what is made say about its maker,
“He didn’t make me”?(A)
How can what is formed
say about the one who formed it,
“He doesn’t understand what he’s doing”?

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This is the word of the Lord
your Maker, the one who formed you from the womb:
He will help you.
Do not fear, Jacob my servant,
Jeshurun[a] whom I have chosen.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 44:2 = Upright One

“Woe to the one who argues with his Maker—
one clay pot among many.[a]
Does clay say to the one forming it,
‘What are you making?’ (A)
Or does your work say,
‘He has no hands’?[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 45:9 Lit a clay pot with clay pots of the ground
  2. 45:9 Or making? Your work has no hands.

11 This is what the Lord,
the Holy One of Israel(A) and its Maker, says:
“Ask me what is to happen to[a] my sons,(B)
and instruct me about the work of my hands.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 45:11 Or me the coming things about

13 But you have forgotten the Lord, your Maker,
who stretched out the heavens
and laid the foundations of the earth.(A)
You are in constant dread all day long
because of the fury of the oppressor,
who has set himself to destroy.
But where is the fury of the oppressor?(B)

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Indeed, your husband is your Maker(A)
his name is the Lord of Armies—
and the Holy One of Israel(B) is your Redeemer;(C)
he is called the God of the whole earth.

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14 Israel has forgotten his Maker(A) and built palaces;(B)
Judah has also multiplied fortified cities.
I will send fire on their cities,(C)
and it will consume their citadels.

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