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Let justice pour down from the sky like rain!
    Let the earth be ready to receive it!
Then salvation and righteousness will grow together,
    like strong plants.
I am the Lord,
    and I will cause it to happen.’

It will be very bad for people who quarrel with their Maker. They are like pieces of a pot that are lying on the ground among all the other pieces. The clay does not say to the potter, ‘What do you think you are you making?’ The pot does not say to the potter, ‘Your work is useless!’

10 It will be very bad for people who say to their fathers, ‘What kind of child have you become a father to?’ And it will be bad for people who say to their mothers, ‘What kind of baby are you giving birth to?’

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