Isaiah 45:9-19 - The Lord Of Creation And History

⁹ Woe to him who is striving with his Former, (A potsherd with potsherds of the ground!) Doth clay say to its Framer, 'What dost thou?' And thy work, 'He hath no hands?' ¹⁰ Woe to him who is saying to a father, 'What dost thou beget?' Or to a wife, 'What dost thou bring forth? ¹¹ Thus said Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel, and his Former: Ask Me of the things coming concerning My sons, Yea, concerning the work of My hands, ye command Me.' ¹² I made earth, and man on it prepared, I -- My hands stretched out the heavens, And all their host I have commanded. ¹³ I have stirred him up in righteousness, And all his ways I make straight, He doth build My city, and My captivity doth send out, Not for price, nor for bribe, said Jehovah of Hosts.

¹⁴ Thus said Jehovah, 'The labour of Egypt, And the merchandise of Cush, And of the Sebaim -- men of measure, Unto thee pass over, and thine they are, After thee they go, in fetters they pass over, And unto thee they bow themselves, Unto thee they pray: Only in thee is God, And there is none else, no other God.

¹⁵ Surely Thou art a God hiding Thyself, God of Israel -- Saviour! ¹⁶ They have been ashamed, And they have even blushed -- all of them, Together gone in confusion have those carving images. ¹⁷ Israel hath been saved in Jehovah, A salvation age-during! Ye are not ashamed nor confounded Unto the ages of eternity!

¹⁸ For thus said Jehovah, Creator of heaven, He is God, Former of earth, and its Maker, He established it -- not empty He prepared it, For inhabiting He formed it: 'I am Jehovah, and there is none else. ¹⁹ Not in secret have I spoken, in a dark place of the earth, I have not said to the seed of Jacob, In vain seek ye Me, I am Jehovah, speaking righteousness, Declaring uprightness.