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20 all so that people may see and recognize,
    perceive,[a] consider, and comprehend at the same time,
that the hand of the Lord has done this,
    and that the Holy One of Israel has created it.”

Can God’s Enemies Predict the Future?

21 “Put forward your case!” says the Lord.
    “Submit your arguments!” says Jacob’s King.
22 Let them approach and ask us,
    ‘What will happen?
As to the former things, what were they?
    Tell us, so that we may consider them and know.
Or[b] the latter things or the things to come—
        let us hear.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 41:20 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsaa corrector MT LXX read to consider
  2. Isaiah 41:22 So 1QIsaa; MT reads them. And we may know