Isaiah 29:16

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be considered like clay, 1 so that the thing that is made should say about him who made it, “He did not make me,” 1 or the thing formed say about him who formed it, “He does not understand”? 1

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In The King James Version

Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

In Context

15Woe to those who deeply hide their plans from Yahweh, 1 and whose deeds are in darkness. They say, “Who sees us, and who knows us?” 1

17In just a little while, 1 Lebanon will be turned into a field, and the field will become a forest. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 24:1Look, Yahweh is about to empty the earth, to devastate it, mar its surface, and scatter its inhabitants. 1

Isaiah 64:8Yet, Yahweh, you are our father; 1 we are the clay. You are our potter; and we all are the work of your hand. 1

Acts 17:6But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and certain other brothers before the officials of the city, crying, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 29:10-17

Threatenings against Judah. ( b. c. 725.) 9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. 11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is… Read the whole commentary →

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