Isaiah 29:16 Cross References

Isaiah 29:16

16: How stupid can you be? He is the Potter, and he is certainly greater than you. You are only the jars he makes! Should the thing that was created say to the one who made it, "He didn't make us"? Does a jar ever say, "The potter who made me is stupid"?

Psalms 94:8

  1. Think again, you fools! When will you finally catch on?
  2. Is the one who made your ears deaf? Is the one who formed your eyes blind?

Romans 9:19

  1. Well then, you might say, "Why does God blame people for not listening? Haven't they simply done what he made them do?"
  2. No, don't say that. Who are you, a mere human being, to criticize God? Should the thing that was created say to the one who made it, "Why have you made me like this?"
  3. When a potter makes jars out of clay, doesn't he have a right to use the same lump of clay to make one jar for decoration and another to throw garbage into?

Isaiah 64:8

  1. And yet, LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are the potter. We are all formed by your hand.

Jeremiah 18:1

  1. The LORD gave another message to Jeremiah. He said,
  2. "Go down to the shop where clay pots and jars are made. I will speak to you while you are there."
  3. So I did as he told me and found the potter working at his wheel.
  4. But the jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped, so the potter squashed the jar into a lump of clay and started again.
  5. Then the LORD gave me this message:

Isaiah 45:9

  1. "Destruction is certain for those who argue with their Creator. Does a clay pot ever argue with its maker? Does the clay dispute with the one who shapes it, saying, `Stop, you are doing it wrong!' Does the pot exclaim, `How clumsy can you be!'
  2. How terrible it would be if a newborn baby said to its father and mother, `Why was I born? Why did you make me this way?'"
  3. This is what the LORD, the Creator and Holy One of Israel, says: "Do you question what I do? Do you give me orders about the work of my hands?

Isaiah 24:1

  1. Look! The LORD is about to destroy the earth and make it a vast wasteland. See how he is scattering the people over the face of the earth.

Acts 17:6

  1. Not finding them there, they dragged out Jason and some of the other believers instead and took them before the city council. "Paul and Silas have turned the rest of the world upside down, and now they are here disturbing our city," they shouted.
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