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Isaiah 64:8

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6 Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.

7 No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.

But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.

9 Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!

10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.

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BSB
But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
KJV
But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
WEB
But now, LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.
ASV
But now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
DARBY
And now, Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
BLB
And now, O YHWH You [are] our Father; we [are] the clay, and You the One forming us, and we [are] all the work of Your hand.
ÅB
Men nå, Herre! Du er vår far; vi er leiren, og du den som former oss, og et verk av din hånd er vi alle sammen.
OTB
Likevel, du, Herre, er vår Far. Vi er leiren, og du er vår pottemaker; vi er alle verk av din hånd.
B1930
Men nu, Herre! Du er vår far; vi er leret, og du den som former oss, og et verk av din hånd er vi alle sammen.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Ephesians 2:10

    For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

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  • Psalms 119:73

    Your hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding to learn Your commandments.

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  • Jeremiah 18:2–6

    “Go down at once to the potter’s house, and there I will reveal My message to you.”

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  • Psalms 138:8

    The LORD will fulfill His purpose for me. O LORD, Your loving devotion endures forever— do not abandon the works of Your hands.

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  • Psalms 100:3

    Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.

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  • Isaiah 44:24

    Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,

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  • Isaiah 29:16

    You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?

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  • Isaiah 45:9

    Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker— one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?

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