16 For you are our Father;+ although Abraham himself may not have known us and Israel himself may not recognize us, you, O Jehovah, are our Father. Our Repurchaser* of long ago is your name.+

8 And now, O Jehovah, you are our Father.+ We are the clay,+ and you are our Potter;*+ and all of us are the work of your hand.+

6 “‘A son, for his part, honors a father;+ and a servant, his grand master.*+ So if I am a father,+ where is the honor to me?+ And if I am a grand master, where is the fear+ of me?’ Jehovah of armies has said to YOU, O priests who are despising my name.+

“‘And YOU have said: “In what way have we despised your name?”’

10 “Is it not one father that all of us have?+ Is it not one God* that has created us?+ Why is it that we deal treacherously with one another,+ in profaning the covenant of our forefathers?+