9. Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What do you make? or of your work, He has no hands?
10. Woe unto him that says unto his father, What do you beget? or to the woman, What have you brought forth?
11. Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker,
12. I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
13. I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall set free my exiles, not for price nor reward,
14. Thus says the LORD,
15. Verily you are a God that hides yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior.
16. They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go in confusion together that are makers of idols.
17. But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: you shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
18. For thus says the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he has established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited:
19. I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the descendants of Jacob, Seek me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
20. Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you that are escaped from the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
21. Tell and bring forth your case; yea, let them take counsel together: who has declared this from ancient time? who has told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no other God besides me; a just God and a Savior; there is none besides me.
22. Look unto me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.