The One (A)forming light and (B)creating darkness,
Causing [a]well-being and (C)creating calamity;
I am the Lord who does all these.

God’s Supreme Power

(D)Drip down, O heavens, from above,
And let the clouds pour down righteousness;
Let the (E)earth open up and salvation bear fruit,
(F)And righteousness spring up with it.
I, the Lord, have created it.

“Woe to the one who (G)quarrels with his [b]Maker—
An earthenware vessel [c]among the vessels of earth!
Will the (H)clay say to the [d]potter, ‘What are you doing?’
Or the thing you are making say, ‘He has no hands’?

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 45:7 Or peace
  2. Isaiah 45:9 Lit Fashioner
  3. Isaiah 45:9 Lit with
  4. Isaiah 45:9 Lit Fashioner