Isaiah 45:9-12

Bible Text

[9] Woe to him who strives with his Maker--a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, "What are you making?" or your work, "He has no hands?" [10] Woe to him who says to a father, "What have you become the father of?" or to a woman, "With what do you travail?" [11] Thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: Ask me of the things that are to come; concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands, command you me. [12] I have made the earth, and created man on it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens; and all their host have I commanded.

Cush, south of Egypt in the region of modern Sudan, and Egypt, the great Nile kingdom to Israel’s southwest, are not mentioned in Isaiah 45:9–12 but appear nearby in verse 14. Their wealth and peoples underscore the surrounding prophecy that the Creator sovereignly subdues nations and vindicates his

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Isaiah 45:9-12 mentions Cush and Egypt.

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