Add parallel Print Page Options

A Rebuke to the Deceptive

15 “How terrible it will be for you who go to great depths
    to hide your plans from the Lord,
you whose deeds have been[a] done[b] in the dark,
    and who say, ‘Who can see us?
        Who has recognized[c] us?’
16 He has turned the tables on you[d]
    as if the potter were thought to be like heat.[e]
Can what is made say of the one who made it,
    ‘He did not make me?’
Or can what is formed say of the ones[f] who formed it,
    ‘He has no skill?’

17 “In a very little while,
    will not Lebanon be turned into a garden of fruit,[g]
        and the garden of fruit[h] seem like a forest?

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 29:15 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read deeds are (or will be)
  2. Isaiah 29:15 DSS MT lack done
  3. Isaiah 29:15 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read recognizes
  4. Isaiah 29:16 So 1QIsaa; MT reads You turn things upside down!
  5. Isaiah 29:16 I.e. the fire in a kiln; so 1QIsaa; MT LXX read clay
  6. Isaiah 29:16 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read one
  7. Isaiah 29:17 Lit. into Carmel
  8. Isaiah 29:17 Lit. and Carmel