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23 Predict how future events will turn out,[a]
so we might know you are gods.
Yes, do something good or something bad,
so we might be frightened and in awe.[b]
24 Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent;
the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 41:23 tn Heb “Declare the coming things, with respect to the end.”
  2. Isaiah 41:23 tc The translation assumes the Qere (וְנִרְאֶה [venirʾeh], from יָרֵא [yareʾ], “be afraid”).tn Heb “so we might be frightened and afraid together.” On the meaning of the verb שָׁתָע (shataʿ), see the note at v. 10.
  3. Isaiah 41:24 tn Heb “an object of disgust [is he who] chooses you.”

23     tell us what the future holds,
    so we may know(A) that you are gods.
Do something, whether good or bad,(B)
    so that we will be dismayed(C) and filled with fear.
24 But you are less than nothing(D)
    and your works are utterly worthless;(E)
    whoever chooses you is detestable.(F)

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