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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!
24 But no! Your idols are useless.
    There is nothing that they can do.
Anybody who chooses to worship them
    has turned against God!

25 I have woken up a ruler,
    who is coming with his army from the north.
He comes from a land in the east, where the sun rises,
    and he will use my name to call to me.
He will walk over rulers of other nations
    as if they are mud.
He will push them down with his feet,
    like a potter who prepares his clay.

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23     tell us what the future holds,
    so we may know(A) that you are gods.
Do something, whether good or bad,(B)
    so that we will be dismayed(C) and filled with fear.
24 But you are less than nothing(D)
    and your works are utterly worthless;(E)
    whoever chooses you is detestable.(F)

25 “I have stirred(G) up one from the north,(H) and he comes—
    one from the rising sun who calls on my name.
He treads(I) on rulers as if they were mortar,
    as if he were a potter treading the clay.

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