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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[a] the latter things or the things to come—
        let us hear.
23 Tell us what the future holds,
    so we may know that you are gods!
Yes, do something good or something bad,
    so we may hear[b] and gaze at it together.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 41:22 So 1QIsaa; MT reads them. And we may know
  2. Isaiah 41:23 So 1QIsaa; MT reads stare at one another; cf. LXX