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16 (A) You have it all backwards.
A clay dish doesn't say
    to the potter,
“You didn't make me.
    You don't even know how.”

Hope for the Future

17 Soon the forest of Lebanon
will become a field with crops,
    thick as a forest.[a]
18 The deaf will be able to hear
    whatever is read to them;
the blind will be freed
    from a life of darkness.

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Footnotes

  1. 29.17 with … forest: Or “and Mount Carmel will be covered with forests.”

16 You turn things upside down,
    as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!(A)
Shall what is formed say to the one who formed(B) it,
    “You did not make me”?
Can the pot say to the potter,(C)
    “You know nothing”?(D)

17 In a very short time,(E) will not Lebanon(F) be turned into a fertile field(G)
    and the fertile field seem like a forest?(H)
18 In that day(I) the deaf(J) will hear the words of the scroll,
    and out of gloom and darkness(K)
    the eyes of the blind will see.(L)

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