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Woe to the one who strives with his maker,[a]
    a potsherd among[b] potsherds of earth!
Does the clay say to the one who fashions it,
    ‘What are you making?’
    and ‘Your work has no hands’?
10 Woe to the one who says to a father, ‘What you are begetting?’
    or[c] to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’”
11 Thus says Yahweh, the holy one of Israel,
    and its maker:[d]
“Ask me of the things to come about[e] my children,
    and you command me about the work of my hands.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 45:9 Literally “one who forms”
  2. Isaiah 45:9 Or “with”
  3. Isaiah 45:10 Or “and”
  4. Isaiah 45:11 Literally “one who forms”
  5. Isaiah 45:11 Literally “over”