23 (A)Show the things that are to come hereafter,
That we may know that you are gods;
Yes, (B)do good or do evil,
That we may be dismayed and see it together.
24 Indeed (C)you are nothing,
And your work is nothing;
He who chooses you is an abomination.

25 “I have raised up one from the north,
And he shall come;
From the [a]rising of the sun (D)he shall call on My name;
(E)And he shall come against princes as though mortar,
As the potter treads clay.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 41:25 East

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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