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Isaiah 45:11

Verse 11 of 25. The 45th of 66 chapters in Isaiah, in The Major Prophets.

7I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does all these things.

8Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, the LORD, have created it.

9Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands’?

10Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’ or to a mother, ‘What have you given birth to?’”

11The LORD, the Holy One of Israel and his Maker says: “You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!

12I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens. I have commanded all their army.

13I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward,” says the LORD of Armies.

14The LORD says: “The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you, and they will be yours. They will go after you. They shall come over in chains. They will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you: ‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else. There is no other god.

15Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’”

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.