22Let them bring forth, and declare to us what shall happen: declare you the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.
23Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods: yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together.
24Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing; an abomination is he who chooses you.
25I have raised up one from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun one who calls on my name: and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.
26Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and before, that we may say, [He is] right? yes, there is none who declares, yes, there is none who shows, yes, there is none who hears your words.
27[I am the] first [who says] to Zion, Behold, behold them; and I will give to Jerusalem one who brings good news.
28When I look, there is no man: even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.
