Isaiah 41:21–29

²¹Produce your cause, saith the Lord;

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

^22wLet 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.

^23yShew 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.

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

An abomination is he that chooseth you.

^25dI 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.

^26gWho 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.

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

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

^28kFor I beheld, and there was no man;

Even amongst them, and there was no counseller,

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

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

Their molten images are wind and confusion.

XLII.