And their works are in the dark;
bThey say, “Who sees us?” and, “Who knows us?”
Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay;
For shall the athing made say of him who made it,
“He did not make me”?
Or shall the thing formed say of him who formed it,
“He has no understanding”?
Future Recovery of Wisdom
Till aLebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field,
And the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest?
And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
And bthe poor among men shall rejoice
In the Holy One of Israel.
aThe scornful one is consumed,
And all who bwatch for iniquity are cut off—
And alay a snare for him who reproves in the gate,
And turn aside the just bby empty words.
“Jacob shall not now be bashamed,
Nor shall his face now grow pale;
aThe work of My hands, in his midst,
They will hallow My name,
And hallow the Holy One of Jacob,
And fear the God of Israel.
And those who complained will learn doctrine.”
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Isaiah 29:17
And Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field "Ere Lebanon become like Carmel" - A mashal , or proverbial saying, expressing any great revolution of things; and, when respecting two subjects, an entire reciprocal change: explained here by some interpreters, I think with great probability, as having its principal view beyond the revolutions then near at hand, to the rejection of the Jews, and the calling of the Gentiles. The first were the vineyard of God, kerem El , (if the prophet, who loves an allusion to words of like sounds, may be supposed to have intended one here), cultivated and watered by him in vain, to be given up, and to become a wilderness: compare Isaiah 5:1-7. The last had been hitherto barren; but were, by the grace of God, to be rendered fruitful. See Matthew 21:43; Romans 11:30, Romans 11:31. Carmel stands here opposed to Lebanon, and therefore is to be taken as a proper name.
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