⁹ Be stunned and amazed,^(A)
    blind yourselves and be sightless;^(B)
be drunk,^(C) but not from wine,^(D)
    stagger,^(E) but not from beer.
¹⁰ The Lord has brought over you a deep sleep:^(F)
    He has sealed your eyes^(G) (the prophets);^(H)
    he has covered your heads (the seers).^(I)

“These people^(A) come near to me with their mouth
    and honor me with their lips,^(B)
    but their hearts are far from me.^(C)
Their worship of me
    is based on merely human rules they have been taught.^[a](D)
14 Therefore once more I will astound these people
    with wonder upon wonder;^(E)
the wisdom of the wise^(F) will perish,
    the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.^(G)”
¹⁵ Woe to those who go to great depths
    to hide^(H) their plans from the Lord,
who do their work in darkness and think,
    “Who sees us?^(I) Who will know?”^(J)
16 You turn things upside down,
    as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!^(K)
Shall what is formed say to the one who formed^(L) it,
    “You did not make me”?
Can the pot say to the potter,^(M)
    “You know nothing”?^(N)