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27 First, to Zion: “There is slumber.”[a]
    And to Jerusalem: “I’ll send a messenger with good news.”
28 But when I look, there is no one—
    among them there’s no one to give counsel,
        no one to give an answer when I ask them.
29 See, none of them exist, and their deeds are nothing.[b]
    Their metal images are only wind and confusion.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 41:27 So 1QIsaa; MT reads look, there they are
  2. Isaiah 41:29 So 1QIsaa; MT reads all of their works are utterly nothing

27 I was the first to tell(A) Zion, ‘Look, here they are!’
    I gave to Jerusalem a messenger of good news.(B)
28 I look but there is no one(C)
    no one among the gods to give counsel,(D)
    no one to give answer(E) when I ask them.
29 See, they are all false!
    Their deeds amount to nothing;(F)
    their images(G) are but wind(H) and confusion.

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