Holy Scripture

Isaiah 45:9

A church father on this verse
“For we, who do not know at all what the future has in store and see merely our present circumstances, misjudge what will profit us. God … sees what is to come as if it were present. These prophecies are addressed, however, to those who make themselves God's judges. To them may also fittingly be cited those words of Sc…”
Nemesius of Emesa, 4th c. — ON THE NATURE OF MAN 44:66

Source: Septuagint

Original

9What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the plowman plow the earth all day? shall the clay say to the potter, What art thou doing that thou dost not work, nor hast hands? shall the thing formed answer him that formed it?

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7I am he that prepared light, and formed darkness; who make peace, and create evil; I am the Lord God, that does all these things.

8Let the heaven rejoice from above, and let the clouds rain righteousness: let the earth bring forth, and blossom with mercy, and bring forth righteousness likewise: I am the Lord that created thee.

— Isaiah 45:9 —

10As though one should say to his father, What wilt thou beget me? and to his mother, What art thou bringing forth?

11For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, who has formed the things that are to come, Inquire of me concerning my sons, and concerning the works of my hands command me.

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