The proud and the meek

Ah, you who hide deep from the Lord your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark,

and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”

You turn things upside down!

Shall the potter be regarded as the clay,

that the thing made should say of its maker, “He did not make me”;

or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?

. . . [But] in that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book,

and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.

The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord,

and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.

-from Isaiah 29

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