16 Your perversity! Should the potter be regarded the same as the clay? Should the thing made say to its maker, “You did not make me”? Or the thing formed say of its former, “You have no understanding?”
17 Will it not be just a very little while before Lebanon turns into a garden, and a garden will seem like a forest?
18 In that day the deaf will hear words of a book, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
19 The meek will add to their joy in Adonai, and the needy of humanity will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the ruthless will come to an end and the scorner will be finished, and all watching to do evil cut off.
21 Those who make a man out to be guilty with a word, and trap him who reproves at the gate, and deny justice with meaninglessness.
22 Therefore, thus says Adonai, Redeemer of Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: “Jacob will no longer be ashamed, no longer will his face grow pale;