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

⁹ "Woe to the one who quarrels with his makers, a mere potsherd with the potsherds of the earth! Woe to the one who says to the one forming him, "What are you making?' or "Your work has no human hands?'! ¹⁰ Woe to the one who says to his father, "What are you begetting?' or to a woman, "To what are you giving birth?'!" ¹¹ This is what the Lord says, the Creator of the signs: "Question me about my children, or give me orders about the work of my hands. ¹² I myself made the earth and personally created humankind upon it. My own hands stretched out the skies; I marshaled all their starry hosts." ¹³ "I have aroused him in righteousness, and I'll make all his pathways smooth. It is he who will rebuild my city and set my exiles free, but not for a price nor reward, " says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

¹⁴ This is what the LORD says: "The wealth of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, those Sabeans, men of great heights. They'll come over to you and will be yours; They'll trudge behind you coming over in chains, they'll bow down to you. They'll plead with you, "Surely God is in you; and there is no other God at all.'"

¹⁵ "Truly you are a God who hides himself, O God of Israel, the Savior. ¹⁶ All of them will be put to shame indeed, disgraced! The makers of idols will go off in disgrace together. ¹⁷ But Israel will be saved by the LORD with everlasting salvation; you won't be put to shame or disgraced ever again."

¹⁸ For this is what the LORD says, who created the heavens he is God, and the one who formed the earth and made it, and he is the one who established it; he didn't create itfor chaos, but formed it to be inhabited "I am the LORD and there is no other. ¹⁹ I didn't speak in secret, from somewhere in a land of darkness; I didn't say to Jacob's descendants, "Seek me in chaos.' I, the LORD, speak truth, declaring what is right.