Isaiah 41:20-23
The Voice
20 They’ll see all this and understand. They’ll ponder together
and come to know that it is the power of the Eternal One that produced this.
They will know that the Holy One of Israel created it.
21 Eternal One: Present your case. Lay out your arguments
and call your witnesses to appear before the King of Jacob.
God and Israel now become judge and jury as the nations bring their idols and make the case that their handmade gods can indeed predict the future.
22-23 Come on and bring your idols. Now tell us what is to come,
and while you’re at it, tell us what happened before.
Can you explain to us so that we, too, may understand?
Go ahead, tell us what the future holds.
Surely you can, if you are truly gods. Do good, or do bad.
Just do something—anything—to amaze or frighten us.
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