Isaiah 29:16 Cross References - LITV

¹⁶ Oh your perversity! Shall the former be counted as the clay? For shall the work of its maker say, He did not make me? Or shall the thing formed say to him who formed it, He does not understand?

⁸ Understand you beastly ones among the people; yea, you fools, when will you be wise? ⁹ He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see?

¹ Lo, Jehovah empties the land and makes it bare, and distorts its face, and scatters its inhabitants.

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 does your work say, He has no hands? ¹⁰ Woe to him who says to a 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 the things to come? Do you give command to Me about My sons, and about the work of My hands?

⁸ But now, Jehovah, You are our Father. We are the clay, and You are our Former; yea, we all are Your handiwork.

¹ The word which was to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, ² Rise up and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear My words. ³ Then I went down to the potter's house, and behold, he was working a work on the wheel. ⁴ And the vessel that he made in clay was ruined in the hand of the potter. So repeating he made it, another vessel, as it seemed good in the potter's eyes to make it . ⁵ And the word of Jehovah was to me, saying, ⁶ O house of Israel, can I not do to you as this potter? says Jehovah Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel. ⁷ The instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, or to break down, or to destroy; ⁸ if that nation against whom I have spoken will turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to it. ⁹ And the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; ¹⁰ if it does evil in My eye, not to obey My voice, then I will repent of the good which I had said to do good to it.

⁶ But not finding them, they dragged Jason and some brothers before the city judges, crying, Those turning the habitable world upside down have come here, too;

¹⁹ You will then say to me, Why does He yet find fault? For who has resisted His will? ²⁰ Yes, rather, O man, who are you answering against God? Shall the thing formed say to the One forming it, Why did You make me like this? Isa. 29:16 ²¹ Or does not the potter have authority over the clay, out of the one lump to make one vessel to honor, and one to dishonor? Jer. 18:6