16 You have turned things around,
as if the potter were the same as the clay.
How can what is made say about its maker,
“He didn’t make me”?(A)
How can what is formed
say about the one who formed it,
“He doesn’t understand what he’s doing”?

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“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?’(A)
Or does your work say,
‘He has no hands’?[b]

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Footnotes

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

Yet Lord, You are our Father;(A)
we are the clay, and You are our potter;
we all are the work of Your hands.(B)

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“House of Israel, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay?”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, house of Israel.(A)

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20 Now in a large house there are not only gold and silver bowls,(A) but also those of wood and clay, some for honorable[a] use, some for dishonorable.[b](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Timothy 2:20 Or special
  2. 2 Timothy 2:20 Or ordinary

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