16. This thought of yours is perverse: as if the clay should think against the potter, and the work should say to the maker thereof: Thou madest me not: or the thing framed should say to him that fashioned it: Thou understandest not.
17. Is it not yet a very little while, and Libanus shall be turned into charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed as a forest?
18. And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and out of darkness and obscurity the eyes of the blind shall see.
19. And the meek shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20. For he that did prevail hath failed, the scorner is consumed, and they are all cut off that watched for iniquity:
21. That made men sin by word, and supplanted him that reproved them in the gate, and declined in vain from the just.
22. Therefore thus saith the Lord to the house of Jacob, he that redeemed Abraham: Jacob shall not now be confounded, neither shall his countenance now be ashamed:
23. But when he shall see his children, the work of my hands in the midst of him sanctifying my name, and they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall glorify the God of Israel: