25 “I have stirred up one from the north,j and he has come,

one from the eastk who invokes myB name.l

He will march over rulers as if they were mud,

like a potter who treads the clay.

26 Who told about this from the beginning,

so that we might know,

and from times past,

so that we might say, ‘He is right’?

No one announced it,

no one told it,

no one heard your words.

27 I was the first to say to Zion,C

‘Look! Here they are!’

And I gave Jerusalem a herald with good news.m

28 When I look, there is no one;

there is no counselor among them;

when I ask them, they have nothing to say.n

29 Look, all of them are a delusion;D

their works are nonexistent;

their images are wind and emptiness.