Isaiah 44:12-14

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹² The ^(A)man shapes iron into a cutting tool and does his work over the coals, ^[a]fashioning it with hammers and working it with his strong arm. He also gets hungry and ^[b]his strength fails; he drinks no water and becomes weary. ^13 (B)Another shapes wood, he extends a measuring line; he outlines it with red chalk. He works it with planes and outlines it with a compass, and makes it like the form of a man, like the beauty of ^(C)man, so that it may sit in a ^(D)house. ¹⁴ Surely he cuts cedars for himself, and takes a ^[c]cypress or an oak and ^[d]raises it for himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow.