Isaiah 29:15-17

Good News Translation

Hope for the Future

¹⁵Those who try to hide their plans from the Lord are doomed! They carry out their schemes in secret and think no one will see them or know what they are doing. ¹⁶^(A)They turn everything upside down. Which is more important, the potter or the clay? Can something you have made say, “You didn't make me”? Or can it say, “You don't know what you are doing”?

¹⁷As the saying goes, before long the dense forest will become farmland, and the farmland will go back to forest.

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Isaiah 29:15-17

New International Version

¹⁵Woe to those who go to great depths
    to hide^(A) their plans from the Lord,
who do their work in darkness and think,
    “Who sees us?^(B) Who will know?”^(C)
¹⁶You turn things upside down,
    as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!^(D)
Shall what is formed say to the one who formed^(E) it,
    “You did not make me”?
Can the pot say to the potter,^(F)
    “You know nothing”?^(G)