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23 Prove that you are gods
by making your predictions
    come true.
Do something good or evil,
so we can be amazed
    and terrified.[a]
24 You idols are nothing,
    and you are powerless.[b]
To worship you
    would be disgusting.

25 I, the Lord, appointed a ruler
    in the north;
now he comes from the east
    to honor my name.
He tramples[c] kings like mud,
    as potters trample clay.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. 41.23 and terrified: Or “when we see it.”
  2. 41.24 powerless: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  3. 41.25 tramples: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  4. 41.25 trample clay: This was done to soften the clay and make it easier to shape.

23     tell us what the future holds,
    so we may know(A) that you are gods.
Do something, whether good or bad,(B)
    so that we will be dismayed(C) and filled with fear.
24 But you are less than nothing(D)
    and your works are utterly worthless;(E)
    whoever chooses you is detestable.(F)

25 “I have stirred(G) up one from the north,(H) and he comes—
    one from the rising sun who calls on my name.
He treads(I) on rulers as if they were mortar,
    as if he were a potter treading the clay.

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

24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.

25 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.

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