31 The translation assumes that vv. 9–10 describe the people’s response to a past judgment (v. 8). The perfect is understood as indicating simple past and the vav (ו) is taken as conjunctive. Another option is to take the vav on the perfect as consecutive and translate, “all the people will know.”
32 Heb “and the people, all of them, knew; Ephraim and the residents of Samaria.”
33 Heb “with pride and arrogance of heart, saying.”
34 Though judgment (see v. 8) had taken away the prosperity they did have (symbolized by the bricks and sycamore fig trees), they arrogantly expected the future to bring even greater prosperity (symbolized by the chiseled stone and cedars).

In other versions

and all the people will know,

Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria,

who say in pride and in arrogance of heart:

“The bricks have fallen,

but we will build with dressed stones;

the sycamores have been cut down,

but we will put cedars in their place.”

All the people will know it—

Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria—

who say with pride

and arrogance of heart,

“The bricks have fallen down,

but we will rebuild with dressed stone;

the fig trees have been felled,

but we will replace them with cedars.”

All the people—

Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria—will know it.

They will say with pride and arrogance,

“The bricks have fallen,

but we will rebuild with cut stones;

the sycamores have been cut down,

but we will replace them with cedars.”

And the people of Israel and Samaria,

who spoke with such pride and arrogance,

will soon know it.

They said, “We will replace the broken bricks of our ruins with finished stone,

and replant the felled sycamore-fig trees with cedars.”

And all of the people knew it,

Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria

in pride and arrogance of heart, saying,

“The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stone.

The sycamore-fig trees were felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”

And all the people shall know,

Even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria,

That say in the pride and stoutness of heart,

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones:

The sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

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