21  †Produce your cause, saith the Lord;

Bring forth your vstrong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

22  wLet them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen:

Let them shew xthe former things, what they be,

That we may †consider them, and know the latter end of them;

Or declare us things for to come.

23  yShew the things that are to come yyhereafter,

zThat we may know that ye are gods:

Yea, ado good, or do evil,

That we may bbe dismayed, and behold it together.

24  Behold, cye are ||of nothing, and your work ||of nought:

An abomination is he that chooseth you.

25  dI have raised up one efrom the north, and he shall come:

dFrom the rising of the sun fshall he call upon my name:

And he shall come upon princes as upon morter,

And as the potter treadeth clay.

26  gWho hath declared from the beginning, that we may know?

And beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous?

Yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth,

Yea, there is none that heareth your words.

27  hThe first ishall say to Zion, Behold, behold them:

And I will give to Jerusalem ione that bringeth good tidings.

28  kFor I beheld, and there was no man;

Even among them, and there was no counseller,

That, when I asked of them, could †answer a word.

29  lBehold, they are all vanity; their works are mnothing:

Their molten images are wind and confusion.