The Lord says:
“These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me
with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men.
Therefore, once more I will astound these people with wonder
upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence
of the intelligent will vanish.”
Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from
the Lord, who do their work in darkness and think, “Who sees us?
Who will know? “
You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be
like the clay!
Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not
make me”? Can the pot say of the potter, “He knows nothing”?
Isaiah 29:13-16