So hear now, O Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have chosen.

They ponder not in their minds, for they have neither knowledge nor understanding, to think thus, "I have burnt one piece in the fire; I have baked bread with the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh withal, and eaten it: shall I now of the residue make an abomination, and fall down before a rotten piece of wood?"

And some done now not of old time, whereof thou never heardest before they were brought to pass: that thou cannot say "I knew of them."

And will feed thine enemies with their own flesh, and make them drink of their own blood, as of sweet wine. And all flesh shall know, O Jacob, that I am the LORD - thy Saviour and strong avenger.

But now O LORD, thou father of ours: we are the clay, and thou art our potter, and we all are the work of thy hands.