Isaiah 10:15
Can an ax attack the person who cuts with it? Can a saw make itself greater than the person who saws with it? A rod cannot move the person who lifts it. A wooden stick cannot pick up a person.
Isaiah 10:5
How horrible it will be for Assyria! It is the rod of my anger. My fury is in the staff of the Assyrians' hands.
Romans 9:20-21
Yes, but you, O man, who are you to answer back to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why have you made me this way? (Isaiah 45:9)
Isaiah 45:9
Does a clay pot dare argue with its maker, a pot that is like all the others? Does the clay ask the potter what he is doing? Does the pot complain that its maker has no skill?
Psalm 17:13-14
Arise, O Jehovah and confront them! Bring them to their knees! With your sword rescue my life from the wicked.
Isaiah 29:16
You have it all backwards. A clay dish does not say to the potter, You did not make me. And should the one made say to the maker, You do not understand?
Jeremiah 51:20-23
He says: You are my war-club, my weapon of war. I shatter nations with you and with you I destroy kingdoms.
Ezekiel 28:9
You will no longer say that you are a god when you face those who kill you. You will be a human, not a god, in the hands of those who kill you.'