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23 Tell us what is to come hereafter,
    that we may know that you are gods;
do good, or do harm,
    that we may be afraid and terrified.
24 You, indeed, are nothing
    and your work is nothing at all;
    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 was summoned by name.[a]
He shall trample[b] on rulers as on mortar,
    as the potter treads clay.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 41:25 Cn Compare Q Ms Gk: MT and he shall call on my name
  2. Isaiah 41:25 Cn: Heb come

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