²¹ The Lord, Israel's King, says,
    ‘Come and show me what you can do!
    Tell me clearly what power you have!
²² Bring your idols into court.
    Let them tell us what will happen in future years.
Let them tell us what happened in the past.
    Then we can think about those things.
    We will understand what happened in the end.
Or ask them to tell us about future events!
²³ If they can tell us what will happen in future years,
    we will know that they really are gods.
Tell them to do something,
    a good thing or a bad thing.
That would really surprise us,
    or even frighten us!