21“Present your case,” the LORD says.
         “Bring forward your strong arguments,”
         The King of Jacob says.

22Let them bring forth and declare to us what is going to take place;
         As for the former events, declare what they were,
         That we may consider them and know their outcome.
         Or announce to us what is coming;

23Declare the things that are going to come afterward,
         That we may know that you are gods;
         Indeed, do good or evil, that we may anxiously look about us and fear together.

24Behold, you are of no account,
         And your work amounts to nothing;
         He who chooses you is an abomination.

25“I have aroused one from the north, and he has come;
         From the rising of the sun he will call on My name;
         And he will come upon rulers as upon mortar,
         Even as the potter treads clay.”

26Who has declared this from the beginning, that we might know?
         Or from former times, that we may say, “He is right!”?
         Surely there was no one who declared,
         Surely there was no one who proclaimed,
         Surely there was no one who heard your words.

27“Formerly I said to Zion, ‘Behold, here they are.’
         And to Jerusalem, ‘I will give a messenger of good news.’

28“But when I look, there is no one,
         And there is no counselor among them
         Who, if I ask, can give an answer.

29“Behold, all of them are false;
         Their works are worthless,
         Their molten images are wind and emptiness.

NASB ©1995

American Standard Version
Produce your cause, saith Jehovah; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Bring your cause near, saith the Lord: bring hither, if you have any thing to allege, saith the King of Jacob.

Darby Bible Translation
Produce your cause, saith Jehovah; bring forward your arguments, saith the King of Jacob.

English Revised Version
Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

Webster's Bible Translation
Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

World English Bible
Produce your cause," says Yahweh. "Bring forth your strong reasons," says the King of Jacob.

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