⁹ See, the former things^(A) have taken place,
    and new things I declare;
before they spring into being
    I announce^(B) them to you.”

“Lord, who has believed our message
    and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”^[a](A)

“I will open my mouth in parables,
    I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.”^[a](B)

²⁶ who carries out the words^(A) of his servants
    and fulfills^(B) the predictions of his messengers,

who says of Jerusalem,^(C) ‘It shall be inhabited,’
    of the towns of Judah, ‘They shall be rebuilt,’
    and of their ruins,^(D) ‘I will restore them,’^(E)

²² “Tell us, you idols,
    what is going to happen.^(A)
Tell us what the former things^(B) were,
    so that we may consider them
    and know their final outcome.
Or declare to us the things to come,^(C)
23     tell us what the future holds,
    so we may know^(D) that you are gods.
Do something, whether good or bad,^(E)
    so that we will be dismayed^(F) and filled with fear.