Isaiah 41:25-29

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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.^(A)
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.^(B)
27 I first have declared it to Zion,^[c]
    and I give to Jerusalem a herald of good tidings.^(C)
28 But when I look there is no one;
    among these there is no counselor
    who, when I ask, gives an answer.^(D)
29 No, they are all a delusion;
    their works are nothing;
    their images are empty wind.^(E)