Isaiah 45:9

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?”

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

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?

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

An arm of flesh is with him, but Yahweh our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

All the trees of the field will know that I, Yahweh, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree flourish. “ ‘I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.’ ”

It shall be, when they ask you, ‘Why do you sigh?’ that you shall say, ‘Because of the news, for it comes! Every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

Then the nations that are left around you will know that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate. I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it.”

What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”

Judah did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”

For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

Why have you prophesied in Yahweh’s name, saying, ‘This house will be like Shiloh, and this city will be desolate, without inhabitant?’ ” All the people were crowded around Jeremiah in Yahweh’s house.

“Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me?

The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.

Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.

Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

Should an ax 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.

because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”

“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, “Why do you prophesy, and say, ‘Yahweh says, “Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;

Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Yahweh says: “You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written therein, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cause to cease from there man and animal?’ ” ’

I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren’t aware. You are found, and also caught, because you have fought against Yahweh.

“ ‘therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,

“Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the sky, and saying, ‘Cut down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him.

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.

Behold, isn’t it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

They shall be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them; and the riders on horses will be confounded.

Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”

because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.

With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you will not prosper.”

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and bronze?

Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I will deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it.

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?