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Isaiah 45:10

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45:10Danger awaits one who says26 to his father,

“What in the world27 are you fathering?”

and to his mother,

“What in the world are you bringing forth?”28

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Footnotes

  1. 26 Heb “Woe [to] one who says” ( and both similar); “How terrible it will be.”
  2. 27 see the note at v. . This phrase occurs a second time later in this verse.
  3. 28 Verses 9–10 may allude to the exiles’ criticism that the Lord does not appear to know what he is doing.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’

or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’ ”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Woe to the one who says to a father,

‘What have you begotten?’

or to a mother,

‘What have you brought to birth?’

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Woe to the one who says to his father,

‘What are you fathering?’

or to his mother,

‘What are you giving birth to?’ ”

NLTNew Living Translation

How terrible it would be if a newborn baby said to its father,

‘Why was I born?’

or if it said to its mother,

‘Why did you make me this way?’ ”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Woe to the one who says to a father, ‘What you are begetting?’

or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’ ”

KJV 1900King James Version

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

Or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?