Isaiah 29:16
Holman Christian Standard Bible
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”?
Isaiah 29:16
New International Version
Isaiah 29:16
King James Version
16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
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Isaiah 64:8
Holman Christian Standard Bible
8 Yet Lord, You are our Father;(A)
we are the clay, and You are our potter;
we all are the work of Your hands.(B)
Isaiah 64:8
New International Version
Isaiah 64:8
King James Version
8 But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
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Jeremiah 18:6
Holman Christian Standard Bible
6 “House of Israel, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay?”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, house of Israel.(A)
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Jeremiah 18:6
New International Version
6 He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Like clay(A) in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand,(B) Israel.
Jeremiah 18:6
King James Version
6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
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Romans 9:20-21
Holman Christian Standard Bible
20 But who are you, a mere man, to talk back to God?(A) Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”(B) 21 Or has the potter no right over the clay,(C) to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor?
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Romans 9:20-21
New International Version
20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?(A) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,(B) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[a](C) 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?(D)
Footnotes
- Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9
Romans 9:20-21
King James Version
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
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