Isaiah 41:17–24

¹⁷The poor and the needy are seeking water, And there is none, Their tongue with thirst hath failed, I, Jehovah do answer them, The God of Israel—I forsake them not. ¹⁸I open on high places rivers, And in midst of valleys fountains, I make a wilderness become a pond of water, And a dry land become springs of water. ¹⁹I give in a wilderness the cedar, Shittah, and myrtle, and oil-tree, I set in a desert the fir-pine and box-wood together. ²⁰So that they see, and know, And regard, and act wisely together, For the hand of Jehovah hath done this, And the Holy One of Israel hath prepared it.

²¹Bring near your cause, saith Jehovah, Bring nigh your mighty ones, saith the king of Jacob. ²²They bring nigh, and declare to us that which doth happen, The first things—what they are declare ye, And we set our heart, and know their latter end, Or the coming things cause us to hear. ²³Declare the things that are coming hereafter, And we know that ye are gods, Yea, ye may do good or do evil, And we look around and see it together. ²⁴Lo, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought, An abomination—it fixeth on you.