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Isaiah 41:26-29
The Message
Isaiah 41:26-29
The Message
25-29 “I, God, started someone out from the north and he’s come.
He was called out of the east by name.
He’ll stomp the rulers into the mud
the way a potter works the clay.
Let me ask you, Did anyone guess that this might happen?
Did anyone tell us earlier so we might confirm it
with ‘Yes, he’s right!’?
No one mentioned it, no one announced it,
no one heard a peep out of you.
But I told Zion all about this beforehand.
I gave Jerusalem a preacher of good news.
But around here there’s no one—
no one who knows what’s going on.
I ask, but no one can tell me the score.
Nothing here. It’s all smoke and hot air—
sham gods, hollow gods, no-gods.”
Isaiah 41:26-28
New International Version
Isaiah 41:26-28
New International Version
26 Who told of this from the beginning,(A) so we could know,
or beforehand, so we could say, ‘He was right’?
No one told of this,
no one foretold(B) it,
no one heard any words(C) from you.
27 I was the first to tell(D) Zion, ‘Look, here they are!’
I gave to Jerusalem a messenger of good news.(E)
28 I look but there is no one(F)—
no one among the gods to give counsel,(G)
no one to give answer(H) when I ask them.
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