<p class="poetry">Their webs cannot be used for clothing;p> <p class="poetry">they cannot cover themselves with what they make.p> <p class="poetry">Their deeds are sinful;p> <p class="poetry">they commit violent crimes.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">For the <sc>Lordsc> will rise up, as he did at Mount Perazim,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he will rouse himself, as he did in the Valley of Gibeon,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">to accomplish his work,p> <p class="poetry">his peculiar work,p> <p class="poetry">to perform his task,p> <p class="poetry">his strange task.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Look, all of them are nothing,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">their accomplishments are nonexistent;p> <p class="poetry">their metal images lack any real substance.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I will denounce your so-called righteousness and your deeds,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but they will not help you.p>

<p class="poetry">Their land is full of worthless idols;p> <p class="poetry">they worship<n id="1" /> the product of their own hands,p> <p class="poetry">what their own fingers have fashioned.p>

<p class="poetry">They say, &#8220;Let him hurry, let him act quickly,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so we can see;p> <p class="poetry">let the plan of the Holy One of Israel<n id="2" /> take shape<n id="3" /> and come to pass,p> <p class="poetry">then we will know it!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Egypt will not be able to do a thing,p> <p class="poetry">head or tail, shoots and stalk.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc>, you make us secure,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for even all we have accomplished, you have done for us.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Fairness will produce peace<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and result in lasting security.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">All of your people will be godly;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they will possess the land permanently.p> <p class="poetry">I will plant them like a shoot;p> <p class="poetry">they will be the product of my labor,p> <p class="poetry">through whom I reveal my splendor.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Yet,<n id="1" /> <sc>Lordsc>, you are our father.p> <p class="poetry">We are the clay, and you are our potter;p> <p class="poetry">we are all the product of your labor.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">They have stringed instruments,<n id="1" /> tambourines, flutes,p> <p class="poetry">and wine at their parties.p> <p class="poetry">So they do not recognize what the <sc>Lordsc> is doing,p> <p class="poetry">they do not perceive what he is bringing about.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">They will no longer trust in<n id="1" /> the altars their hands made,p> <p class="poetry">or depend on the Asherah poles and incense altars their fingers made.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> has made them undiscerning;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they lead Egypt astray in all she does,p> <p class="poetry">so that she is like a drunk sliding around in his own vomit.<n id="2" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies will pronounce a blessing over the earth, saying,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Blessed be my people, Egypt, and the work of my hands, Assyria, and my special possession,<n id="2" /> Israel!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Those who try to hide their plans from the <sc>Lordsc> are as good as dead,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">who do their work in secret and boast,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Who sees us? Who knows what we&#8217;re doing?&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Your thinking is perverse!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Should the potter be regarded as clay?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Should the thing made say<n id="3" /> about its maker, &#8220;He didn&#8217;t make me&#8221;?p> <p class="poetry">Or should the pottery say about the potter, &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t understand&#8221;?p>

<p class="poetry">For when they see their children,p> <p class="poetry">whom I will produce among them,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they will honor<n id="2" /> my name.p> <p class="poetry">They will honor the Holy One of Jacob;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">they will respect<n id="4" /> the God of Israel.p>

They have burned the gods of the nations,<n id="1" /> for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">Look, I create the craftsman,p> <p class="poetry">who fans the coals into a firep> <p class="poetry">and forges a weapon.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I create the destroyer so he might devastate.p>