²⁴ Behold, ^(A)you are less than nothing,
And ^(B)your work is less than nothing!
He who chooses you is an ^(C)abomination.

²⁵ “I have put ^(D)one from the north into motion, and he has come;
From the rising of the sun he will call on My name;
And he will come upon rulers as upon ^[a](E)mortar,
As the potter treads on clay.”
²⁶ Who has ^(F)declared this from the beginning, that we might know?
Or from former times, that we may say, “He is right!”?
There was ^(G)no one at all who declared,
There was no one at all who proclaimed,
There was no one at all who heard your words.