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23 If they can tell us what will happen in future years,
    we will know that they really are gods.
Tell them to do something,
    a good thing or a bad thing.
That would really surprise us,
    or even frighten us!
24 But no! Your idols are useless.
    There is nothing that they can do.
Anybody who chooses to worship them
    has turned against God!

25 I have woken up a ruler,
    who is coming with his army from the north.
He comes from a land in the east, where the sun rises,
    and he will use my name to call to me.
He will walk over rulers of other nations
    as if they are mud.
He will push them down with his feet,
    like a potter who prepares his clay.

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