Isaiah 45:9

New International Reader's Version

How terrible it will be for anyone who argues with their Maker! They are like a broken piece of pottery lying on the ground. Does clay say to a potter, “What are you making?” Does a pot say, “The potter doesn’t have any skill”?

Cross References

Job 10:9

Remember, you molded me like clay. So are you going to turn me back into dust?

Job 33:13

Why do you claim that God never answers anybody’s questions?

Job 40:2

“I am the Mighty One. Will the man who argues with me correct me? Let him who brings charges against me answer me!”

Job 9:12

If he takes something, who can stop him? Who would dare to ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

Job 9:4

His wisdom is deep. His power is great. No one opposes him and comes away unharmed.

Proverbs 21:30

No wisdom, wise saying or plan can succeed against the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 6:10

God has already planned what now exists. He has already decided what a human being is. No one can argue with someone who is stronger.

Isaiah 10:15

Does an ax claim to be more important than the person who swings it? Does a saw brag that it is better than the one who uses it? That would be like a stick swinging the person who picks it up! It would be like a war club waving the one who carries it!

Isaiah 29:16

They turn everything upside down. How silly they are to think that potters are like the clay they work with! Can what is made say to the one who made it, “You didn’t make me”? Can the pot say to the potter, “You don’t know anything”?

Isaiah 45:10

How terrible it will be for anyone who says to a father, “Why did you give me life?” How terrible for anyone who says to a mother, “Why have you brought me into the world?”

Isaiah 64:7

No one prays to you. No one asks you for help. You have turned your face away from us. You have let us feel the effects of our sins.

Isaiah 64:8

Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay. You are the potter. Your hands made all of us.

Jeremiah 18:6

“People of Israel, I can do with you just as this potter does,” announces the Lord. “The clay is in the potter’s hand. And you are in my hand, people of Israel.

Jeremiah 36:29

Also tell King Jehoiakim, ‘The Lord says, “You burned that scroll. You said to Baruch, ‘Why did you write that the king of Babylon would certainly come? Why did you write that he would destroy this land? And why did you write that he would remove from it people and animals alike?’ ”

Jeremiah 50:24

Babylon, I set a trap for you. And you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured. That is because you opposed me.

Daniel 4:35

He considers all the nations on earth to be nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven. He does what he wants with the nations of the earth. No one can hold back his hand. No one can say to him, “What have you done?”

1 Corinthians 10:22

Are we trying to make the Lord jealous? Are we stronger than he is?