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You created us, </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/isaiah/64-8.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/isaiah/64-8.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/isaiah/64-8.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/isaiah/1.htm">Isaiah</a> > <a href="/gntd/isaiah/64.htm">Chapter 64</a> > Verse 8</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/64-7.htm" title="Isaiah 64:7">◄</a> Isaiah 64:8 <a href="../isaiah/64-9.htm" title="Isaiah 64:9">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/isaiah/64.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/isaiah/64.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />But you are our father, LORD. We are like clay, and you are like the potter. You created us, <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/64.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Yet, O LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/isaiah/64.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />You, LORD, are our Father. We are nothing but clay, but you are the potter who molded us. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/64.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Yet, LORD, you are our father; we are the clay and you our potter: we are all the work of your hand. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/isaiah/64.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />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.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">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.</p><p class="hdg">thou art</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/63-16.htm">Isaiah 63:16</a> For thou art our father, and Abraham hath not known us, and Israel hath been ignorant of us: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer, from everlasting is thy name.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/4-22.htm">Exodus 4:22</a> And thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is my son, my firstborn.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/32-6.htm">Deuteronomy 32:6</a> Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../galatians/3-26.htm">Galatians 3:26,29</a> For you are all the children of God, by faith in Christ Jesus. . . . </p><p class="hdg">are the clay</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/29-16.htm">Isaiah 29:16</a> This thought of yours is perverse: as if the clay should think against the potter, and the work should say to the maker thereof: Thou madest me not: or the thing framed should say to him that fashioned it: Thou understandest not.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/45-9.htm">Isaiah 45:9</a> Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a sherd of the earthen pots: shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it: What art thou making, and thy work is without hands?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/18-2.htm">Jeremiah 18:2-6</a> Arise, and go down into the potter's house, and there thou shalt hear my words. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/9-20.htm">Romans 9:20-24</a> O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus? . . . </p><p class="hdg">all are</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/43-7.htm">Isaiah 43:7</a> And every one that calleth upon my name, I have created him for my glory. I have formed him, and made him.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/44-21.htm">Isaiah 44:21,24</a> Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for thou art my servant. I have formed thee, thou art my servant, O Israel, forget me not. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/10-8.htm">Job 10:8,9</a> Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me wholly round about, and dost thou thus cast me down headlong on a sudden? . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/100-3.htm">Psalm 100:3</a> Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/119-73.htm">Psalm 119:73</a> Thy hands have made me and formed me: give me understanding, and I will learn thy commandments.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/138-8.htm">Psalm 138:8</a> The Lord will repay for me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: O despise not the works of thy hands.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ephesians/2-10.htm">Ephesians 2:10</a> For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus in good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/isaiah/64.htm">A Prayer for God's Power</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">7</span>There is none that calleth upon thy name: that riseth up, and taketh hold of thee: thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast crushed us in the hand of our iniquity. <span class="reftext">8</span><span class="highl">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.</span><span class="reftext">9</span>Be not very angry, O Lord, and remember no longer our iniquity: behold, see we are all thy people.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/8-41.htm">John 8:41</a></span><br />You do the works of your father. They said therefore to him: We are not born of fornication: we have one Father, even God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/9-20.htm">Romans 9:20</a></span><br />O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/4-22.htm">Exodus 4:22</a></span><br />And thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is my son, my firstborn.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/10-3.htm">Job 10:3</a></span><br />Doth it seem good to thee that thou shouldst calumniate me, and oppress me, the work of thy own hands, and help the counsel of the wicked?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/100-3.htm">Psalm 100:3</a></span><br />Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/9-6.htm">Isaiah 9:6</a></span><br />For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/19-25.htm">Isaiah 19:25</a></span><br />Which the Lord of hosts hath blessed, saying: Blessed be my people of Egypt, and the work of my hands to the Assyrian: but Israel is my inheritance.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/29-16.htm">Isaiah 29:16</a></span><br />This thought of yours is perverse: as if the clay should think against the potter, and the work should say to the maker thereof: Thou madest me not: or the thing framed should say to him that fashioned it: Thou understandest not.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/45-9.htm">Isaiah 45:9</a></span><br />Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a sherd of the earthen pots: shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it: What art thou making, and thy work is without hands?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/45-11.htm">Isaiah 45:11</a></span><br />Thus saith the Lord the Holy One of Israel, his maker: Ask me of things to come, concerning my children, and concerning the work of my hands give ye charge to me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/60-21.htm">Isaiah 60:21</a></span><br />And thy people shall be all just, they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hand to glorify me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/63-16.htm">Isaiah 63:16</a></span><br />For thou art our father, and Abraham hath not known us, and Israel hath been ignorant of us: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer, from everlasting is thy name.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/18-6.htm">Jeremiah 18:6</a></span><br />Cannot I do with you, as this potter, O house of Israel, saith the Lord? behold as clay is in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/31-9.htm">Jeremiah 31:9</a></span><br />They shall come with weeping: and I will bring them back in mercy: and I will bring them through the torrents of waters in a right way, and they shall not stumble in it: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/1-10.htm">Hosea 1:10</a></span><br />And the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, that is without measure, and shall not be numbered. And it shall be in the place where it shall be said to them: You are not my people: it shall be said to them: Ye are the sons of the living God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../malachi/2-10.htm">Malachi 2:10</a></span><br />Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why then doth every one of us despise his brother, violating the covenant of our fathers?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/64-5.htm">Angry</a> <a href="/isaiah/45-9.htm">Clay</a> <a href="/isaiah/64-4.htm">Ear</a> <a href="/psalms/94-20.htm">Framer</a> <a href="/isaiah/64-7.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/isaiah/64-4.htm">Mind</a> <a href="/isaiah/45-9.htm">Potter</a> <a href="/isaiah/60-7.htm">Prayer</a> <a href="/isaiah/64-5.htm">Sins</a> <a href="/isaiah/62-11.htm">Work</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/64-9.htm">Angry</a> <a href="/jeremiah/18-4.htm">Clay</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-24.htm">Ear</a> <a href="/jeremiah/10-16.htm">Framer</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-1.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-16.htm">Mind</a> <a href="/jeremiah/18-4.htm">Potter</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-1.htm">Prayer</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-7.htm">Sins</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-7.htm">Work</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/64-8.htm">Isaiah 64:8 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/64-8.htm">Isaiah 64:8 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/64-8.htm">Isaiah 64:8 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/64-8.htm">Isaiah 64:8 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/64-8.htm">Isaiah 64:8 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/64-8.htm">Isaiah 64:8 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/64-8.htm">Isaiah 64:8 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/64-8.htm">Isaiah 64:8 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/isaiah/64-8.htm">Isaiah 64:8 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: all and are But clay Father hand LORD now O of our potter the us We work Yet you your<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/isaiah/64-8.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 64:8 But now Yahweh you are our Father (Isa Isi Is) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools</a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="/catholic/">Catholic Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/64-7.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 64:7"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 64:7" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/64-9.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 64:9"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 64:9" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#f7f7f7"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="8261988112"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>