Isaiah 41:21–29

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. ²⁵I have stirred up one from the north, And he cometh, From the rising of the sun he calleth in My name, And he cometh in on prefects as on clay, And as a potter treadeth down mire. ²⁶Who hath declared from the first, and we know? And beforetime, and we say, ‘Righteous?’ yea, there is none declaring, Yea, there is none proclaiming, Yea, there is none hearing your sayings. ²⁷First to Zion, Behold, behold them, And to Jerusalem one proclaiming tidings I give, ²⁸And I see that there is no man, Yea, of these that there is no counsellor, And I ask them, and they return word: ²⁹‘Lo, all of them are vanity, Nought are their works, Wind and emptiness their molten images!’

Chapter 42