Isaiah 41:23
Good News Translation
Tell us what the future holds--then we will know that you are gods! Do something good or bring some disaster; fill us with fear and awe!

New Revised Standard Version
Tell us what is to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; do good, or do harm, that we may be afraid and terrified.

Contemporary English Version
Prove that you are gods by making your predictions come true. Do something good or evil, so we can be amazed and terrified.

New American Bible
tell what is to be in the future, that we may know that you are gods! Do something, good or evil, that will put us in awe and in fear.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Shew the things that are to come hereafter, and we shall know that ye are gods. Do ye also good or evil, if you can: and let us speak, and see together.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Shew the things that are to come hereafter, and we shall know that ye are gods. Do ye also good or evil, if you can: and let us speak, and see together.

that we may know

Isaiah 42:9 The things that were first, behold they are come: and new things do I declare: before they spring forth, I will make you hear them.

Isaiah 44:7,8 Who is like to me? let him call and declare: and let him set before me the order, since I appointed the ancient people: and the things to come, and that shall be hereafter, let them shew unto them. . . .

Isaiah 45:8 Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just: let the earth be opened, and bud forth a saviour: and let justice spring up together: I the Lord have created him.

Isaiah 46:9,10 Remember this, and be ashamed: return, ye transgressors, to the heart. . . .

John 13:19 At present I tell you, before it come to pass: that when it shall come to pass, you may believe that I am he.

Acts 15:18 To the Lord was his own work known from the beginning of the world.

do good

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all these things.

Isaiah 46:7 You that contribute gold out of the bag, and weigh out silver in the scales: and hire a goldsmith to make a god: and they fall down and worship.

Jeremiah 10:5 They are framed after the likeness of a palm tree, and shall not speak: they must be carried to be removed, because they cannot go. Therefore fear them not, for they can neither do evil nor good.

Context
Meaningless Idols
22Let them come, and tell us all things that are to come: tell us the former things what they were: and we will set our heart upon them and shall know the latter end of them, and tell us the things that are to come. 23Shew the things that are to come hereafter, and we shall know that ye are gods. Do ye also good or evil, if you can: and let us speak, and see together.24Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination.…
Cross References
John 13:19
At present I tell you, before it come to pass: that when it shall come to pass, you may believe that I am he.

Isaiah 42:9
The things that were first, behold they are come: and new things do I declare: before they spring forth, I will make you hear them.

Isaiah 43:9
All the nations are assembled together, and the tribes are gathered: who among you can declare this, and shall make us hear the former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, let them be justified, and hear, and say: It is truth.

Isaiah 44:7
Who is like to me? let him call and declare: and let him set before me the order, since I appointed the ancient people: and the things to come, and that shall be hereafter, let them shew unto them.

Isaiah 44:8
Fear ye not, neither be ye troubled from that time I have made thee to hear, and have declared: you are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me, a maker, whom I have not known?

Isaiah 45:3
And I will give thee hidden treasures, and the concealed riches of secret places: that thou mayest know that I am the Lord who call thee by thy name, the God of Israel.

Isaiah 45:21
Tell ye, and come, and consult together: who hath declared this from the beginning, who hath foretold this from that time? Have not I the Lord, and there is no God else besides me? A just God and a saviour, there is none besides me.

Jeremiah 10:5
They are framed after the likeness of a palm tree, and shall not speak: they must be carried to be removed, because they cannot go. Therefore fear them not, for they can neither do evil nor good.

Daniel 2:9
If, therefore, you tell me not the dream, there is one sentence concerning you, that you have also framed a lying interpretation, and full of deceit, to speak before me till the time pass away. Tell me, therefore, the dream, that I may know that you also give a true interpretation thereof.

Isaiah 41:22
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