Isaiah 41:25-29

New International Reader's Version

²⁵ “I have stirred up a king
    who will come from the north.
He lives in the east.
    He will bring honor to me.
He walks all over rulers as if they were mud.
    He steps on them just as a potter stomps on clay.
²⁶ Which one of you false gods said those things
    would happen before they did?
Who told us about them
    so we could know them?
Who told us ahead of time?
    Who told us so we could say,
    ‘You are right’?
None of you false gods told us about them.
    None of you told us ahead of time.
    In fact, no one heard you say anything at all.
²⁷ I was the first to tell Zion.
    I said, ‘Look! The people of Israel are coming back!’
    I sent a messenger to Jerusalem with the good news.
²⁸ I look, but there is no one
    among the gods that can give me advice.
None of them can answer
    when I ask them the simplest question.
²⁹ So they are not really gods at all.
    What they do does not amount to anything.
    They are as useless as wind.