14. Therefore I will again deal with this peoplein surprising and wondrous fashion:The wisdom of the wise shall perish,the prudence of the prudent shall vanish.
15. Ah! You who would hide a plantoo deep for the Lord!Who work in the dark, saying,“Who sees us, who knows us?”
16. Your perversity is as though the potterwere taken to be the clay:As though what is made should say of its maker,“He did not make me!”Or the vessel should say of the potter,“He does not understand.”
17. Surely, in a very little while,Lebanon shall be changed into an orchard,and the orchard be considered a forest!