“What sorrow awaits those who argue with their Creator.

Does a clay pot argue with its maker?

Does the clay dispute with the one who shapes it, saying,

‘Stop, you’re doing it wrong!’

Does the pot exclaim,

‘How clumsy can you be?’

Isaiah 45:9

This is what the LORD says—

the Holy One of Israel and your Creator:

“Do you question what I do for my children?

Do you give me orders about the work of my hands?

I am the one who made the earth

and created people to live on it.

With my hands I stretched out the heavens.

All the stars are at my command.

Isaiah 45:11-12

I created the light and make the darkness.

I send good times and bad times.

I, the LORD, am the one who does these things.

Isaiah 45:7

I am the LORD;

there is no other God.

I have equipped you for battle,

though you don’t even know me,

so all the world from east to west

will know there is no other God.

I am the LORD, and there is no other.

Isaiah 45:5-6

And I will give you treasures hidden in the darkness—secret riches.

I will do this so you may know that I am the LORD,

the God of Israel, the one who calls you by name.

Isaiah 45:3

…I, the LORD, made you,

and I will not forget you.

I have swept away your sins like a cloud.

I have scattered your offenses like the morning mist.

Oh, return to me,

for I have paid the price to set you free.”

Isaiah 44:21-22

“From eternity to eternity I am God.

No one can snatch anyone out of my hand.

No one can undo what I have done.”

Isaiah 43:13

Who but a fool would make his own god—

an idol that cannot help him one bit?

Isaiah 44:10

The person who made the idol never stops to reflect,

“Why, it’s just a block of wood!

I burned half of it for heat

and used it to bake my bread and roast my meat.

How can the rest of it be a god?

Should I bow down to worship a piece of wood?”

Isaiah 44:19

This is what the LORD says—

your Redeemer and Creator;

“I am the LORD, who made all things.

I alone stretched out the heavens.

Who was with me

when I made the earth?

Isaiah 44:24