“Heavens, sprinkle from above,
and let the skies shower righteousness.(A)
Let the earth open up
so that salvation will sprout
and righteousness will spring up with it.(B)
I, the Lord, have created it.

“Woe to the one who argues with his Maker—
one clay pot among many.[a]
Does clay say to the one forming it,
‘What are you making?’ (C)
Or does your work say,
‘He has no hands’?[b]
10 Woe to the one who says to his father,
‘What are you fathering?’
or to his mother,[c]
‘What are you giving birth to?’”

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Footnotes

  1. 45:9 Lit a clay pot with clay pots of the ground
  2. 45:9 Or making? Your work has no hands.
  3. 45:10 Lit to a woman

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