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

⁹ Woe to him who fights with the One who formed him, a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to its former, What are you making? Or your work, He has no hands? ¹⁰ Woe to him who says to his father, What are you fathering? Or to the woman, What are you laboring over? ¹¹ So says Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, and the One who formed him, Do you ask Me of things to come? Do you give command to Me about My sons, and about the work of My hands? ¹² I have made the earth, and created man on it; I with My hands have stretched out the heavens; and all their host have I commanded. ¹³ I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways; he shall build My city, and he shall let My captives go, not for price nor reward, says Jehovah of Hosts.

¹⁴ So says Jehovah, The labor of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia, and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come to you, and they shall be yours. They shall come after you in chains; and they shall cross in chains and they shall fall down to you. They shall plead to you, saying, Surely God is in you; and none else, no other God.

¹⁵ Truly You are a God who hides Yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior. ¹⁶ They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them; they who are makers of idols shall go into disgrace together. ¹⁷ But Israel shall be saved in Jehovah with an everlasting salvation. You shall not be ashamed nor blush to the forevers of eternity.

¹⁸ For so says Jehovah the Creator of the heavens, He is God, forming the earth and making it; He makes it stand, not creating it empty, but forming it to be inhabited. I am Jehovah, and there is no other. ¹⁹ I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth. I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Seek me in vain. I Jehovah speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.