Isaiah 41:21-29 - The Futility Of Idols
21 Stand at your cause, sayeth the LORD, and bring forth your strongest ground, counseleth the King of Jacob. 22 Let the gods come forth themselves, and show us the things that are past, what they be: let them declare them unto us, that we may take them to heart, and know them hereafter. 23 Either, let them show us things for to come, and tell us what shall be done hereafter: so shall we know, that they be gods. Show something, either good or bad: so will we both knowledge the same, and tell it out. 24 Behold, ye gods are of naught, and your making is of naught; yea, abominable is the man that hath chosen you.
25 Nevertheless, I have waked up one from the North, and he shall come. And another from the East, which shall call upon my name, and shall come to the princes, as the Potter to his clay, and as the Potter treadeth down the mire. 26 Who declared this from the beginning, and we will know him; or from the old times, and we will confess and say that he is righteous? But there is none that showeth or declareth anything; there is none also that heareth your words. 27 The first is he that shall say unto Zion, "Behold, behold, they are present!" And to Israel itself will I give an Evangelist. 28 But when I consider, there is not one among them that prophesieth; neither, when I ask him, that answereth one word. 29 Lo, wicked are they and vain, with the things also that they take in hand: yea, their images are but wind and emptiness.