Isaiah 45:9-19 - The Lord Of Creation And History
9 Woe to him who strives with his maker, a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What are thou making? or thy work, He has no hands? 10 Woe to him who says to a father, What are thou begetting? or to a woman, With what are thou travailing? 11 Thus says LORD, the Holy One of Israel and his maker: Ask me of the things that are to come concerning my sons. And command ye me concerning the work of my hands. 12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host I have commanded. 13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways. He shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward, says LORD of hosts.
14 Thus says LORD: The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to thee, and they shall be thine. They shall go after thee. In chains they shall come over, and they shall fall d
15 Verily thou are a God who hides thyself, O God of Israel, the Savior. 16 They shall be put to shame, yea, confounded, all of them. They shall go into confusion together who are makers of idols. 17 [But] Israel shall be saved by LORD with an everlasting salvation. Ye shall not be put to shame nor confounded world without end.
18 For thus says LORD who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and did not create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: I am LORD, and there is none else. 19 I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain. I, LORD, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.