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11 The people of long ago are not remembered,
    nor will there be any remembrance
of people yet to come
    by those who come after them.

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16 For there is no enduring remembrance of the wise or of fools, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How can the wise die just like fools?

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The enemies have vanished in everlasting ruins;
    their cities you have rooted out;
    the very memory of them has perished.(A)

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The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no more reward, and even the memory of them is lost.(A)

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See, the former things have come to pass,
    and new things I now declare;
before they spring forth,
    I tell you of them.(A)

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22 Let them bring them and tell us
    what is to happen.
Tell us the former things, what they were,
    so that we may consider them
and that we may know their outcome
    or declare to us the things to come.(A)
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.(B)
24 You, indeed, are nothing,
    and your work is nothing at all;
    whoever chooses you is an abomination.(C)

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.(D)
26 Who declared it from the beginning, so that we might know,
    and beforehand, so that we might say, “He is right”?
There was no one who declared it, none who proclaimed,
    none who heard your words.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 41.25 Compare Q ms Gk: MT he shall call on my name
  2. 41.25 Cn: Heb come