<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">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">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">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">A putrid stench will replace the smell of spices,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">a rope will replace a belt,p> <p class="poetry">baldness will replace braided locks of hair,p> <p class="poetry">a sackcloth garment will replace a fine robe,p> <p class="poetry">and a prisoner&#8217;s brand will replace beauty.p>