Isaiah 45:9–19

9  xWoe unto him that ystriveth with zhis Maker!

Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth.

zShall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?

Or thy work, He hath no hands?

10  Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou?

Or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?

11  Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker,

Ask me of athings to come concerning bmy sons,

And concerning cthe work of my hands command ye me.

12  dI have made the earth,

And ecreated man upon it:

I, even my hands, fhave stretched out the heavens,

And gall their host have I commanded.

13  hI have raised him up in righteousness,

And I will ||direct all his ways:

iHe shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives,

kNot for price nor reward,

Saith the Lord of hosts.

14  Thus saith the Lord,

lThe labour of Egypt, and merchandise of mEthiopia

And of the nSabeans, omen of stature,

Shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine:

They shall come after thee; pin chains they shall come over,

And qthey shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying,

rSurely God is in thee;

And sthere is none else, there is no God.

15  Verily thou art a God tthat hidest thyself,

O God of Israel, the Saviour.

16  uThey shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them:

They shall go to confusion together that are makers of vidols.

17  But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation:

vvYe shall not be ashamed nor confounded wworld without end.

18  xFor thus saith the Lord that created the heavens;

God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it,

He created it not yin vain, he formed it to be inhabited:

I sam the Lord; and there is none else.

19  zI have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth:

I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me yin vain:

aI the Lord speak righteousness, I declare bthings that are right.