16. Your thinking is perverse!Should the potter be regarded as clay?Should the thing made say about its maker, “He didn’t make me”?Or should the pottery say about the potter, “He doesn’t understand”?
17. In just a very short timeLebanon will turn into an orchard,and the orchard will be considered a forest.
18. At that time the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll,and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness.
19. The downtrodden will again rejoice in the Lord;the poor among humankind will take delight in the Holy One of Israel.
20. For tyrants will disappear,those who taunt will vanish,and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated –
21. those who bear false testimony against a person,who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gateand deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges.
22. So this is what the Lord, the one who delivered Abraham, says to the family of Jacob:“Jacob will no longer be ashamed;their faces will no longer show their embarrassment.
23. For when they see their children,whom I will produce among them,they will honor my name.They will honor the Holy One of Jacob;they will respect the God of Israel.
24. Those who stray morally will gain understanding;those who complain will acquire insight.