Hey, you who argue with the one who forms him,
a pot with earthen pots.
Can clay say to the one who forms it,
‘What do you do?’,
or can the thing you make say, ‘It has no handles’?
Hey, you who say to a father, ‘What do you beget?’
or to a woman, ‘What do you give birth to?’
Yahweh has said this –
Yisra’el’s sacred one and the one who forms it:
‘Ask me about things to come for my children –
you can give me orders about the work of my hands.
I’m the one who made the earth
and created humanity upon it.
I – my hands stretched out the heavens,
I ordered their entire army.
I’m the one who aroused him in faithfulness
and level all his ways.
He’s the one who will build up my town
and send off my exiles,
Not for payment, not for a bribe’,
Yahweh of Armies has said.

Goldingay, John; Goldingay, John; Wright, Tom; Wright, Tom. The Bible for Everyone . SPCK. Kindle Edition.

Lord, you have given me so much,
I ask for one more thing –
a grateful heart.

George Herbert