Isaiah 41:25-27

Good News Translation

²⁵ “I have chosen a man who lives in the east;^[a]
    I will bring him to attack from the north.
He tramples on rulers as if they were mud,
    like a potter trampling clay.
²⁶ Which of you predicted that this would happen,
    so that we could say that you were right?
None of you said a word about it;
    no one heard you say a thing!
²⁷ I, the Lord, was the first to tell Zion the news;
    I sent a messenger to Jerusalem to say,
    ‘Your people are coming! They are coming home!’^[b]