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23 Tell us the things that are to come, so that we may know that you⁺ are gods. Yes, do something good or evil, that we may look on together in dismay. 24 Behold, you⁺ are nothing and your⁺ work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you⁺ is detestable. 25 I have raised up one from the north, and he has come—one from the east who calls on My name. He will march over rulers as if they were mortar, like a potter who treads the clay. 26 Who has declared this from the beginning, so that we may know, and from times past, so that we may say: ‘He was right’? No one announced it, no one foretold it, no one heard your⁺ words. 27 I was the first to tell Zion (Formerly I said to Zion:): ‘Look, here they are!’ And I gave to Jerusalem (city of peace) a herald of good news. 28 When I look, there is no one; there is no counselor among them; when I ask them, they have nothing to say. 29 See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind {ruach}. Isaiah 41:23-29, Berean Annotated Bible. Public domain.
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