Quotes About Identity

What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?

Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have not been in labor or given birth. I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”

Is this your jubilant city, whose origin is from antiquity, whose feet have taken her to settle far away?

“Take up your harp, stroll through the city, O forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody, sing many a song, so you will be remembered.”

You 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”?

Therefore the LORD who redeemed Abraham says of the house of Jacob: “No longer will Jacob be ashamed and no more will his face grow pale.

Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?í”

To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?

“To whom will you liken Me, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.

Who has performed this and carried it out, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD—the first and the last—I am He.”

“But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—

I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners. I said, ëYou are My servant.í I have chosen and not rejected you.

Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.

Now this is what the LORD says—He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!

Because you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you and nations in place of your life.

everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”

The people I formed for Myself will declare My praise.

But now listen, O Jacob My servant, Israel, whom I have chosen.

One will say, ëI belong to the LORD,í another will call himself by the name of Jacob, and still another will write on his hand, ëThe LORDís,í and will take the name of Israel.”

Remember 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.

For the sake of Jacob My servant and Israel My chosen one, I call you by name; I have given you a title of honor, though you have not known Me.

Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ëWhat are you making?í Does your work say, ëHe has no handsí?

Woe to him who says to his father, ëWhat have you begotten?í or to his mother, ëWhat have you brought forth?í”

To whom will you liken Me or count Me equal? To whom will you compare Me, that we should be alike?