The LORD has made everything for its own end-- yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Romans 9:21 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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? |
The LORD has made everything for its own end-- yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.
Woe to him who strives with his Maker--a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, *What are you making?* or your work, *He has no hands?*
But now, LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
Is this man Konyahu a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel in which none delights? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they don't know?
Yisra'el is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
But the Lord said to him, *Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Yisra'el.
For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, *Why did you make me like this?*