15. Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”
16. You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me”; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”
17. Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?
18. In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
19. The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20. For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—
21. who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.
22. Therefore Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, says concerning the house of Jacob: “Jacob shall no longer be ashamed, neither shall his face grow pale.