יהוה has made all for His purpose, And also the wrong for the day of evil.
Romans 9:21 - The Scriptures 2009 Does not the potter have authority over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for value and another not for value? Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same mass (lump) one vessel for beauty and distinction and honorable use, and another for menial or ignoble and dishonorable use? American Standard Version (1901) Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor? Common English Bible Doesn’t the potter have the power over the clay to make one pot for special purposes and another for garbage from the same lump of clay? Catholic Public Domain Version And does not the potter have the authority over the clay to make, from the same material, indeed, one vessel unto honor, yet truly another unto disgrace? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? |
יהוה has made all for His purpose, And also the wrong for the day of evil.
Would the axe boast itself over him who chops with it, or the saw exalt itself over him who saws with it? As a rod waving those who lift it up! As a staff lifting up that which is not wood!
“Woe to him who strives with his Maker! (a potsherd with the potsherds of the earth). Does clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ Or your handiwork say, ‘He has no hands’?
And now, O יהוה, You are our Father. We are the clay, and You our potter. And we are all the work of Your hand.
“Is this man Konyahu a despised broken pot, or an undesirable vessel? Why are they hurled out, he and his descendants, and cast into a land which they do not know?
“Yisra’ĕl has been swallowed up. They have now become among the nations as a vessel in which is no pleasure.
But the Master said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My Name before nations, sovereigns, and the children of Yisra’ĕl.
Yet, before they were born or had done any good or evil – in order that the purpose of Elohim, according to choice, might stand, not of works but of Him who calls –
So, then, He favours whom He wishes, and He hardens whom He wishes.
But who are you, O man, to talk back to Elohim? Shall that which is formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”