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14 So watch how I will continue to amaze these people
    with amazing, extraordinary things.
The wisdom of the wise will perish,
and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.

Hope for the Future

15 Woe to those who try to hide their plans from the Lord.
Their deeds are done in darkness,
and they think that no one sees them
or knows what they are doing.

16 You turn things upside down!
Should the potter be treated like clay?
Should the thing that was made say to its maker,
    “You didn’t make me”?
Should the creation say to the creator,
    “You know nothing”?

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14 therefore look, I am again doing something spectacular

and a spectacle with this spectacular people.
And the wisdom of its wise men shall perish,
    and the discernment of its discerning ones shall keep itself hidden.”
15 Ah! Those who make a plan deep, to hide it from Yahweh,
    and their deeds are[a] in a dark place.
And they say, “Who sees us?
    And who knows us?”
16 Your perversity!
    As if a potter[b] shall be regarded as the clay!
That the product of its maker says,
    “He did not make me,”
and the thing made into shape says of its potter,[c]
    “He has no understanding.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 29:15 The Hebrew is singular
  2. Isaiah 29:16 Literally “of the one who creates”
  3. Isaiah 29:16 Literally “one who creates”