⁹ Woe to him who strives with his Maker--a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, "What are you making?" or your work, "He has no hands?"

²⁰ But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

²¹ Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

⁸ But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

¹⁶ You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him who made it, He didn't make me; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, He has no understanding?

²⁴ I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against Yahweh.

⁶ House of Israel, can't I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

¹⁵ Shall the axe boast itself against him who hews therewith? Shall the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? as if a rod should wield those who lift it up, [or] as if a staff should lift up [him who is] not wood.

³⁰ There is no wisdom nor understanding Nor counsel against Yahweh.

⁸ Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

⁹ Or have you an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

²⁴ Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

²⁵ Because he has stretched out his hand against God, And behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;

²⁶ He runs at him with a stiff neck, With the thick shields of his bucklers;

¹⁶ but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth;

¹⁷ as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won't let them go.

² The kings of the earth take a stand, And the rulers take counsel together, Against Yahweh, and against his anointed,{The word "anointed" is the same as the word for "Messiah" or "Christ"} saying,

³ "Let's break their bonds apart, And cast away their cords from us."

⁴ He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

⁵ Then he will speak to them in his anger, And terrify them in his wrath:

⁶ "Yet I have set my king on my holy hill of Zion."

⁷ I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, "You are my son. Today I have become your father.

⁸ Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, The uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

⁹ You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."