Isaiah 44:18-20

International Standard Version

¹⁸ They don’t realize; they don’t understand, because their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their minds, too, so they cannot understand. ¹⁹ No one stops to think. No one has the knowledge or understanding to think—yes to think!—^[a]“Half of it I burned in the fire. I even baked bread on its coals, and^[b] I roasted meat and ate it. And^[c] am I about to make detestable things^[d] from what is left? Am I about to bow down to blocks^[e] of wood?” ²⁰ He tends ashes. A deceived mind has lead him astray. It cannot be his life,^[f] nor can he say, “There’s a lie in my right hand.”^[g]