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Isaiah 64:8

Bible in Basic English 1965

But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.

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What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

Be certain that the Lord is God; it is he who has made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep to whom he gives food.

JOD Your hands have made me, and given me form: give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your teaching.

The Lord will make all things complete for me: O Lord, your mercy is eternal; do not give up the works of your hands.

Maschil. Of Asaph. Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?

O come, let us give worship, falling down on our knees before the Lord our Maker.

Why let the Egyptians say, He took them out to an evil fate, to put them to death on the mountains, cutting them off from the earth? Let your wrath be turned away from them, and send not this evil on your people.

And you are to say to Pharaoh, The Lord says, Israel is the first of my sons:

Because of the blessing of the Lord of armies which he has given them, saying, A blessing on Egypt my people, and on Assyria the work of my hands, and on Israel my heritage.

You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?

I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind.

Every one who is named by my name, and whom I have made for my glory, who has been formed and designed by me.

Keep these things in mind, O Jacob; and you Israel, for you are my servant: I have made you; you are my servant; O Israel, I will not let you go out of my memory.

The Lord, who has taken up your cause, and who gave you life in your mother's body, says, I am the Lord who makes all things; stretching out the heavens by myself, and giving the earth its limits; who was with me?

The Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, says, Will you put a question to me about the things which are to come, or will you give me orders about my sons, and the work of my hands?

Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?

For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.

Your people will all be upright, the land will be their heritage for ever; the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, to be for my glory.

For you are our father, though Abraham has no knowledge of us, and Israel gives no thought to us: you, O Lord, are our father; from the earliest days you have taken up our cause.

For he said, Truly they are my people, children who will not be false: so he was their saviour out of all their trouble.

For to us a child has come, to us a son is given; and the government has been placed in his hands; and he has been named Wise Guide, Strong God, Father for ever, Prince of Peace.

They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons.

But still the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which may not be measured or numbered; and in place of its being said to them, You are not my people, it will be said to them, You are the sons of the living God

Have we not all one father? has not one God made us? why are we, every one of us, acting falsely to his brother, putting shame on the agreement of our fathers?

You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.

Because you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and yours is the heritage by the right of God's undertaking given to Abraham.

For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

Is this your answer to the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your father who has given you life? He has made you and given you your place.

But still they are your people and your heritage, whom you took out by your great power and by your stretched-out arm.




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