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I form light and create darkness.
I make shalom and create calamity.
I, Adonai, do all these things.

“Rain down, O heavens, from above,
and let the clouds pour down justice.
Let the earth open up,
let salvation sprout,
and righteousness spring up with it.
I, Adonai, have created it.”

Oy, to one who quarrels with his Maker,
like a pot among the pots of the earth!
Shall the clay say to the potter,
    “What have you made?”
Or does your work say,
    “It has no handles”?[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 45:9 cf. Rom. 9:20.