Isaiah 45:10
8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?
11 Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.
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.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought forth?’”
- KJV
- Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?
- WEB
- Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’ or to a mother, ‘What have you given birth to?’”
- ASV
- Woe unto him that saith unto a father, What begettest thou? or to a woman, With what travailest thou?
- DARBY
- Woe unto him that saith unto [his] father, What begettest thou? Or to [his] mother, What hast thou brought forth?
- BLB
- Woe [to] the one saying to [his] father, ‘What are you begetting? Or to a woman, ‘What have you brought forth?”
- ÅB
- Ve den som sier til sin far: Hvorfor avler du? og til kvinnen: Hvorfor føder du?
- OTB
- Ve dem som spør en far: ‘Hva har du avlet?’ eller en mor: ‘Hva har du født?’
- B1930
- Ve den som sier til sin far: Hvorfor avler du? og til kvinnen: Hvorfor føder du?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Malachi 1:6
A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
Read in contextDeuteronomy 27:16
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Read in contextHebrews 12:9
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
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