Isaiah 41:21-29 - The Futility Of Idols
21 "Present your legal case," says Yahweh. "Bring your evidence," says the king of Jacob. 22 Let them bring [them], and let them tell us what will happen. Tell us what the former things [are] {so that} we may take [them to] our heart and know their outcome. Declare to us the things to come; 23 tell [us] the things coming {hereafter}, that we may know that you [are] gods. Indeed, do good or do evil, that we may be afraid and see together. 24 Look! you [are] nothing, and your work [is] something worthless; whoever chooses you [is] an abomination.
25 I stirred up [one] from [the] north, and he has come from [the] rising of the sun. He shall call on my name, and he shall come [on] officials as [on] mortar, and as [the] {potter} treads clay. 26 Who declared [it] from [the] {beginning} {so that} we might know, and {beforehand} {so that} we might say, "[He is] {right}!" Indeed, there was no one who declared [it]; Indeed, there was no one who proclaimed [it]. Indeed there was no one who heard your words. 27 First to Zion, look! Look at them! And I give a herald of good tidings to Jerusalem. 28 But I look and there is no man, and [I look] among these and there is no counselor, that I might ask them and they might answer a word. 29 Look! All of them [are] deception; their works [are] nothing; their images [are] wind and emptiness.