15. Ah, you who hide deep from the Lord your counsel,whose deeds are in the dark,and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”
16. You turn things upside down!Shall the potter be regarded as the clay,that the thing made should say of its maker,“He did not make me”;or the thing formed say of him who formed it,“He has no understanding”?
17. Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field,and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?
18. In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book,and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.
19. The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord,and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.
20. For the ruthless shall come to nothingand the scoffer cease,and all who watch to do evil shall be cut off,
21. who by a word make a man out to be an offender,and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate,and with an empty plea turn aside him who is in the right.
22. Therefore thus says the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob:“Jacob shall no more be ashamed,no more shall his face grow pale.