Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back? Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’
“Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?
If he passes through and imprisons and summons the court, who can turn him back?
But he is unchangeable, and who can turn him back? What he desires, that he does.
“For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?”
When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?—
Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’
all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”
“O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.
Why do you contend against him, saying, ‘He will answer none of man's words’?
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills. You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?” But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”
yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.
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