“Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’ or to a mother, ‘What have you given birth to?’””

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Isaiah 45 contains 25 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.