⁵ Ah, Assyria, ^(A)the rod of my anger;
    the staff in their hands is my fury!

^16 (A)You turn things upside down!
Shall the potter be regarded as the clay,
that the thing made should say of its maker,
    “He did not make me”;
or the thing formed say of him who formed it,
    “He has no understanding”?

^9 (A)“Woe to him who strives with him who formed him,
    a pot among earthen pots!
^(B)Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’
    or ‘Your work has no handles’?