2 Nephi 27 (III)

2 Nephi 27:27 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay. This phrase took me a bit. There's a footnote to look at Jeremiah, which is just the reference to us being clay in the potter's hands--not very helpful. I flipped over to Isaiah to see if there was anything to clarify it there, and it reads pretty much exactly the same. The context suggests that people who try to hide their works from the lord are trying to put themselves on a level with him, to say unto him that made it, he made me not. But I didn't get the part about turning things upside down being like clay. According to Barnes notes on the bible, though, There has been much diversity in rendering this phrase. Luther renders it, 'O how perverse ye are.' Lowth renders it,'Perverse as ye are! shall the potter be esteemed as the clay?'. Two different translations that leave out entirely the whole turning = clay sentiment and simply say, you're being ridiculous to think that you can possibly hide anything from God; he made you.