Isaiah 64:8

The people appeal to God as Father and potter, confessing they are the clay, the work of His hands. It matters because it casts hope entirely on God's fatherly, sovereign care.

Cross-references · 17

• Eph 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
• Ps 119:73Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
• Jer 18:2–6“Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.”
• Ps 138:8Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.
• Ps 100:3Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
• Isa 29:16You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me”; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”
• Isa 44:24Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;
• Isa 45:9Woe to him who strives with his Maker — a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’
• Isa 63:16For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.
• Isa 43:7everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’”
• Isa 44:21Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.
• Rom 9:20–24But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
• Deut 32:6Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.
• Job 10:8–9“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.
• Gal 3:26For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
• Gal 3:29If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.
• Exod 4:22You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

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