Isaiah 45:9

The Passion Translation

Shame on the one who argues with his Creator, like one clay pot among other pots arguing with the potter. Should the clay say to the potter, ‘What in the world are you doing with me? Your hands are clumsy’?

Cross References

Proverbs 21:30

All your brilliant wisdom and clever insight will be of no help at all if the Lord is against you.

Isaiah 10:15

Is the axe greater than the one who wields it? Is the saw greater than the one who cuts with it? Can the axe strike without a hand to move it? Can a lifeless wooden cane walk all by itself?

Isaiah 29:16

Oh, how great is your perversion! Who is more intelligent—the potter or the clay? Should a created thing say to its creator, ‘You didn’t make me’? Should a clay pot say to the potter, ‘You don’t understand’?”

Isaiah 45:10

Shame on the one who complains to a father, ‘Why in the world did you conceive me?’ Or to a mother, ‘Why in the world did you bring me to birth?’ ”

Isaiah 64:7

No one calls on your name or presses in to lay hold of you, for you have hidden your face from us. You have let us be ruined by our own sins.

Isaiah 64:8

Yet still, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are like clay and you are our Potter. Each one of us is the creative, artistic work of your hands.

Jeremiah 18:6

“Can I not do with the people of Israel just as the potter has done with the clay?” declares Yahweh. “Listen, people of Israel. You are clay that I shape in my hands like the clay in the potter’s hands.

Jeremiah 36:29

Yahweh told me to tell the king, “Yahweh says to you: You have burned the scroll, and you have demanded that Jeremiah tell you why he prophesied that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land and exterminate its people and its animals.

Jeremiah 50:24

You defied me and fought against me, Babylon, so I laid a trap for you. You were caught before you knew it!

Daniel 4:35

All who dwell on earth are regarded as nothing compared to him. He does whatever he pleases with the armies of heaven and with those who dwell on earth. No one can restrain his mighty hand or dare ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

1 Corinthians 10:22

Who would ever want to arouse the Lord’s jealousy? Is that something you think you’re strong enough to endure?