¹⁶ You turn things upside down,
    as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!^(A)
Shall what is formed say to the one who formed^(B) it,
    “You did not make me”?
Can the pot say to the potter,^(C)
    “You know nothing”?^(D)

⁸ Yet you, Lord, are our Father.^(A)
    We are the clay, you are the potter;^(B)
    we are all the work of your hand.^(C)