Isaiah 45:9

Catholic Public Domain Version

Woe to him who contradicts his Maker, a mere shard from an earthen vessel! Should the clay say to the potter, "What are you making?" or, "Your work is not made by your hands?"

Cross References

Job 10:9

Remember, I ask you, that you have fashioned me like clay, and you will reduce me to dust.

Job 33:13

Do you contend against him because he has not responded to all of your words?

Job 40:2

Gird your waist like a man. I will question you, and you must answer me.

Job 9:12

If he suddenly should question, who will answer him? Or who can say, "Why did you do so?"

Job 9:4

He is understanding in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and yet had peace?

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom, there is no prudence, there is no counsel, which is against the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 6:10

Whoever shall be in the future, his name has already been called. And it is known that he is a man and that he is not able to contend in judgment against one who is stronger than himself.

Isaiah 10:15

Should the axe glorify itself over him who wields it? Or can the saw exalt itself over him who pulls it? How can a rod lift itself up against him who wields it, or a staff exalt itself, though it is only wood?

Isaiah 29:16

This intention of yours is perverse. It is as if the clay were to plan against the potter, or as if the work were to say to its maker: "You did not make me." Or it is as if what has been formed were to say to the one who formed it, "You do not understand."

Isaiah 45:10

Woe to him who says to his father, "Why did you conceive?" or to a woman, "Why did you give birth?"

Isaiah 64:7

There is no one who calls upon your name, who rises up and holds fast to you. You have concealed your face from us, and you have crushed us with the hand of our own iniquity.

Isaiah 64:8

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.

Jeremiah 18:6

"Am I not able to do with you, O house of Israel, just as this potter has done, says the Lord? Behold, like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

Jeremiah 36:29

And you shall say to Jehoiakim, the king of Judah: Thus says the Lord: You have burned that volume, saying: 'Why have you written in it, announcing that the king of Babylon will advance quickly, and will devastate this land, and will cause both man and beast to cease from it?'

Jeremiah 50:24

I have ensnared you, and you have been captured, O Babylon, and you did not realize it. You have been discovered and seized, because you provoked the Lord.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or should we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he is? All is lawful to me, but not all is expedient.