Isaiah 29:15 CPDV

¹³  And the Lord said: Since this people have drawn near to me only with their mouth, and their lips glorify me while their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is based on the commandments and doctrines of men,

¹⁴  for this reason, behold, I will proceed to accomplish a wonder for this people, a great and mystifying miracle. For wisdom will perish from their wise, and the understanding of their prudent will be concealed.

¹⁵  Woe to you who use the depths of the heart, so that you may hide your intentions from the Lord. Their works are done in darkness, and so they say: 'Who sees us?' and 'Who knows us?'

¹⁶  This intention of yours is perverse. It is as if the clay were to plan against the potter, or as if the work were to say to its maker: 'You did not make me.' Or it is as if what has been formed were to say to the one who formed it, 'You do not understand.'

¹⁷  In not more than a little while and a brief time, Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and a fruitful field will be considered to be a forest.