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21 Produce your cause,” says Yahweh.
    “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.
22 “Let them announce and declare to us what will happen!
    Declare the former things, what they are,
    that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them;
    or show us things to come.
23 Declare the things that are to come hereafter,
    that we may know that you are gods.
Yes, do good, or do evil,
    that we may be dismayed,
    and see it together.
24 Behold, you are nothing,
    and your work is nothing.
    He who chooses you is an abomination.

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21 “Present the case for your idols,”
    says the Lord.
“Let them show what they can do,”
    says the King of Israel.[a]
22 “Let them try to tell us what happened long ago
    so that we may consider the evidence.
Or let them tell us what the future holds,
    so we can know what’s going to happen.
23 Yes, tell us what will occur in the days ahead.
    Then we will know you are gods.
In fact, do anything—good or bad!
    Do something that will amaze and frighten us.
24 But no! You are less than nothing and can do nothing at all.
    Those who choose you pollute themselves.

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Footnotes

  1. 41:21 Hebrew the King of Jacob. See note on 14:1.