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23 Tell us what is coming next
    so we will believe that you are gods.
Do something, whether it is good or bad,
    and make us afraid.
24 You gods are less than nothing;
    you can’t do anything.
    Those who worship you should be hated.

25 “I have brought someone to come out of the north[a]
    I have called by name a man from the east, and he knows me.
He walks on kings as if they were mud,
    just as a potter walks on the clay.

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Footnotes

  1. 41:25 someone . . . north This probably means Cyrus, a king of Persia.

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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