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A Prayer for God’s Power

Isaiah 64:8

In 11 translations

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, Yahweh, 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.
LSV
And now, O YHWH, You [are] our Father, || We [are] the clay, and You [are] our Framer, || And the work of Your hand—all of us.
YLT
And now, O Jehovah, thou [art] our Father, We [are] the clay, and Thou our Framer, And the work of Thy hand — all of us.
DBY
And now, Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
DRC
And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands.
GNV
But now, O Lord, thou art our Father: we are the clay, and thou art our potter, and we all are the worke of thine hands.
JPS64:7
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.
LXXE64:7
And now, O Lord, thou art our Father, and we are clay, all of us the work of thine hands.

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Original-language editions

WLC64:7
וְעַתָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אָבִ֣ינוּ אָ֑תָּה אֲנַ֤חְנוּ הַחֹ֨מֶר֙ וְאַתָּ֣ה יֹצְרֵ֔נוּ וּמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה יָדְךָ֖ כֻּלָּֽנוּ׃KJV:Isa.64.8
LXX-Br64:7
Καὶ νῦν Κύριε, πατὴρ ἡμῶν σὺ, ἡμεῖς δὲ πηλός, ἔργα τῶν χειρῶν σου πάντες.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Ephesians 2:10For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
  • Psalms 119:73Your hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding to learn Your commandments.
  • Jeremiah 18:2–6“Go down at once to the potter’s house, and there I will reveal My message to you.” So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the wheel. But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed…
  • Psalms 138:8The LORD will fulfill His purpose for me. O LORD, Your loving devotion endures forever— do not abandon the works of Your hands.
  • Psalms 100:3Know 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.
  • Isaiah 29:16You 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”?
  • Isaiah 44:24Thus 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,
  • Isaiah 45:9Woe 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’?
  • Isaiah 63:16Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
  • Isaiah 43:7everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”
  • Romans 9:20–24But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?” Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special…
  • Isaiah 44:21Remember these things, O Jacob, for you are My servant, O Israel. I have made you, and you are My servant; O Israel, I will never forget you.
  • Deuteronomy 32:6Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?
  • Job 10:8–9Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me? Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
  • Galatians 3:26You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
  • Galatians 3:29And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.

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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 64:7 in some Bibles
  • 64:8 in most Bibles

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