23 Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good or do evil, that we may declare it, and behold it together.

24 Behold, ye are of no value, and your making is of naught: man hath [a]chosen an abomination by them.

25 ¶ I have raised up from the [b]North, and he shall come: from the East sun shall he [c]call upon my name, and shall come upon [d]princes as upon clay, and as the potter treadeth mire under the foot.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 41:24 So that a man cannot make an idol, but he must do that which God detesteth and abhoreth: for he chooseth his own devices and forsaketh the Lord’s.
  2. Isaiah 41:25 Meaning, the Chaldeans.
  3. Isaiah 41:25 That is, Cyrus, who shall do all things in my name and by my direction: whereby he meaneth that both their captivity and deliverance shall be ordered by God’s providence and appointment.
  4. Isaiah 41:25 Both of the Chaldeans and others.

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