Does it seem good to thee to oppress, to despise the work of thy hands and favor the designs of the wicked?
Isaiah 64:8 - Revised Standard Version Yet, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter; we are all the work of thy hand. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Yet, O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You our Potter, and we all are the work of Your hand. American Standard Version (1901) But now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. Common English Bible But now, LORD, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter. All of us are the work of your hand. Catholic Public Domain Version And now, O Lord, you are our Father, yet truly, we are clay. And you are our Maker, and we are all the works of your hands. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands. |
Does it seem good to thee to oppress, to despise the work of thy hands and favor the designs of the wicked?
Know that the Lord is God! It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Thy hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn thy commandments.
The Lord will fulfil his purpose for me; thy steadfast love, O Lord, endures for ever. Do not forsake the work of thy hands.
O God, why dost thou cast us off for ever? Why does thy anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!
Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
And you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my first-born son,
whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my heritage.”
You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay; that the thing made should say of its maker, “He did not make me”; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?
“I, I am He who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
every one who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”
Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant; I formed you, you are my servant; O Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who made all things, who stretched out the heavens alone, who spread out the earth—Who was with me? —
Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: “Will you question me about my children, or command me concerning the work of my hands?
“Woe to him who strives with his Maker, an earthen vessel with the potter! Does the clay say to him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?
For I will not contend for ever, nor will I always be angry; for from me proceeds the spirit, and I have made the breath of life.
Your people shall all be righteous; they shall possess the land for ever, the shoot of my planting, the work of my hands, that I might be glorified.
For thou art our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us; thou, O Lord, art our Father, our Redeemer from of old is thy name.
For he said, Surely they are my people, sons who will not deal falsely; and he became their Savior.
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
With weeping they shall come, and with consolations I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.
Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered; and in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Sons of the living God.”
Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
You do what your father did.” They said to him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.”
And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Do you thus requite the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?
For they are thy people and thy heritage, whom thou didst bring out by thy great power and by thy outstretched arm.’