Isaiah 41:21-29 - The Futility Of Idols
21 Bring near your contention, Saith Yahweh, - Advance your defences, Saith the King of Jacob: 22 Let them advance them, and tell us, What shall happen, - Things known in advance - what they were, tell ye, That we may lay them to our heart and mark the after-story of them, Or, things yet to come, let us hear: 23 Tell ye the events which shall be here-after, That we may perceive that gods, ye are, - Surely ye must do something - good or bad, That we may be amazed and behold it, at once. 24 Lo! ye, are, of nought, And your work is a puff of breath, - An abomination, he that chooseth you!
25 I have roused up one from the North, and he hath come, From the rising of the sun, calleth he on my Name, - And he hath come, on deputies, as though they were mortar, And as a potter treadeth clay. 26 Who hath told in advance, that we might know, And beforetime, that we might say Right! Nay, there is none who can tell. Nay, there is none who can let us hear, Nay, there is none who can understand what ye utter. 27 He who is First, can say , To Zion, Lo! there they are! And to Jerusalem, A herald of good-tidings, do I give. 28 So I look, And there is not, a Man! Even among these And there is none to advise, - That, when I ask them, can answer a word. 29 Lo! as to all of them, Vanity - nothingness, are their works, Wind and emptiness, their molten images!