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,
