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Isaiah 29:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay, that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”? "

Isaiah 29:16

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14 therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”

15 Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from the LORD, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

16 You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay, that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?

17 Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?

18 In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

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Related Verses

Isaiah 45:9

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"Woe 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’?"

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Romans 9:21

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"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?"

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Sirach 33:13

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"As the clay of the potter in his hand, all his ways are according to his good pleasure, so men are in the hand of him who made them, to give to them according to his judgment."

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Jeremiah 18:4

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"When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it."

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Proverbs 24:12

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"If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not give to every man according to his work?"

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Wisdom 15:7

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"For a potter, kneading soft earth, laboriously molds each article for our service. He fashions out of the same clay both the vessels that minister to clean uses, and those of a contrary sort, all in like manner. What shall be the use of each article of either sort, the potter is the judge."

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Isaiah 29:1

"Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;"

Isaiah 29:2

"then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth."

Isaiah 29:3

"I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you."

Isaiah 29:4

"You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust."

Isaiah 29:5

"But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly."

Isaiah 29:6

"She will be visited by the LORD of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire."

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