¹⁸ They know nothing, they understand^(A) nothing;
    their eyes^(B) are plastered over so they cannot see,
    and their minds closed so they cannot understand.
¹⁹ No one stops to think,
    no one has the knowledge or understanding^(C) to say,
“Half of it I used for fuel;^(D)
    I even baked bread over its coals,
    I roasted meat and I ate.
Shall I make a detestable^(E) thing from what is left?
    Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”^(F)

¹³ Therefore my people will go into exile^(A)
    for lack of understanding;^(B)
those of high rank^(C) will die of hunger
    and the common people will be parched with thirst.^(D)

¹¹ When its twigs are dry, they are broken off^(A)
    and women come and make fires^(B) with them.
For this is a people without understanding;^(C)
    so their Maker has no compassion on them,
    and their Creator^(D) shows them no favor.^(E)

²⁰ “Gather together^(A) and come;
    assemble, you fugitives from the nations.
Ignorant^(B) are those who carry^(C) about idols of wood,
    who pray to gods that cannot save.^(D)