Isaiah 41:25-29
International Standard Version
25 “You are stirring up[a] one from the north,
and they are coming[b] from the rising of the sun;
and[c] he will be called by his[d] name.
Rulers will arrive like mud;[e]
just[f] like a potter, he will trample the clay.
26 Who told of this from the beginning,
so we could know,
or beforehand, so we could ask,
‘Is it right?’[g]
Indeed, no one told of this,
no one made an announcement,
and no one heard your words:
27 First, to Zion: “There is slumber.”[h]
And to Jerusalem: “I’ll send a messenger with good news.”
28 But when I look, there is no one—
among them there’s no one to give counsel,
no one to give an answer when I ask them.
29 See, none of them exist, and their deeds are nothing.[i]
Their metal images are only wind and confusion.’”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 41:25 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read I am raising
- Isaiah 41:25 So 1QIsaa; MT reads I am raising
- Isaiah 41:25 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack and
- Isaiah 41:25 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read my
- Isaiah 41:25 I.e. like an overflowing river; so 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads He will come, rulers like mud
- Isaiah 41:25 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and
- Isaiah 41:26 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads He was right
- Isaiah 41:27 So 1QIsaa; MT reads look, there they are
- Isaiah 41:29 So 1QIsaa; MT reads all of their works are utterly nothing
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