Isaiah 29:16
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16 You have turned things around,
as if the potter were the same as the clay.
How can what is made say about its maker,
“He didn’t make me”?(A)
How can what is formed
say about the one who formed it,
“He doesn’t understand what he’s doing”?
Isaiah 64:8
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8 Yet Lord, you are our Father;(A)
we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we all are the work of your hands.(B)
Jeremiah 18:6
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6 “House of Israel, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay?”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.(A)
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Romans 9:20-21
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20 On the contrary, who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?(A) Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?” (B) 21 Or has the potter no right over the clay,(C) to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor?
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