Isaiah 41:21-29 - The Futility Of Idols

²¹ “Submit your case,” says the Lord.
“Present your arguments,” says Jacob’s King.
²² “Let them come and tell us
what will happen.
Tell us the past events,
so that we may reflect on them
and know the outcome,
or tell us the future.
²³ Tell us the coming events,
then we will know that you are gods.
Indeed, do something good or bad,
then we will be in awe and perceive.
²⁴ Look, you are nothing
and your work is worthless.
Anyone who chooses you is detestable.

²⁵ “I have raised up one from the north, and he has come,
one from the east who invokes My name.
He will march over rulers as if they were mud,
like a potter who treads the clay.
²⁶ Who told about this from the beginning,
so that we might know,
and from times past,
so that we might say: He is right?
No one announced it,
no one told it,
no one heard your words.
²⁷ I was the first to say to Zion:
Look! Here they are!
And I gave a herald of good news to Jerusalem.
²⁸ When I look, there is no one;
there is no counselor among them;
when I ask them, they have nothing to say.
²⁹ Look, all of them are a delusion;
their works are nonexistent;
their images are wind and emptiness.