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Trickle, O heavens, from above,
    and let clouds trickle with righteousness;
let the earth open so that[a] salvation may be fruitful,
    and let it cause righteousness to sprout along with it.[b]
        I myself, Yahweh, have created it.
Woe to the one who strives with his maker,[c]
    a potsherd among[d] potsherds of earth!
Does the clay say to the one who fashions it,
    ‘What are you making?’
    and ‘Your work has no hands’?
10 Woe to the one who says to a father, ‘What you are begetting?’
    or[e] to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 45:8 Or “and”
  2. Isaiah 45:8 Or “together”
  3. Isaiah 45:9 Literally “one who forms”
  4. Isaiah 45:9 Or “with”
  5. Isaiah 45:10 Or “and”