25 “I have put (A)one from the north into motion, and he has come;
From the rising of the sun he will call on My name;
And he will come upon rulers as upon [a](B)mortar,
As the potter treads on clay.”
26 Who has (C)declared this from the beginning, that we might know?
Or from former times, that we may say, “He is right!”?
There was (D)no one at all who declared,
There was no one at all who proclaimed,
There was no one at all who heard your words.
27 (E)Previously I said to Zion, ‘Behold, here they are.’
And to Jerusalem, ‘I will give a (F)messenger of good news.’
28 But (G)when I look, there is no one,
And there is no (H)counselor [b]among them
Who, if I ask, can (I)give an answer.
29 Behold, all of them are [c]false;
Their (J)works are (K)nothing,
Their cast metal images are (L)wind and emptiness.

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Notas al pie

  1. Isaiah 41:25 I.e., the building material
  2. Isaiah 41:28 Lit out of those
  3. Isaiah 41:29 Another reading is nothing

25 (A)I stirred up one from the north, and he has come,
    (B)from the rising of the sun, (C)and he shall call upon my name;
he shall trample on rulers as on mortar,
    as the potter treads clay.
26 (D)Who declared it from the beginning, that we might know,
    and beforehand, that we might say, “He is right”?
There was none who declared it, none who proclaimed,
    none who heard your words.
27 (E)I was the first to say[a] to Zion, “Behold, here they are!”
    and (F)I give to Jerusalem a herald of good news.
28 (G)But when I look, there is no one;
    among these there is no counselor
    who, when I ask, gives an answer.
29 (H)Behold, they are all a delusion;
    their works are nothing;
    their metal images are empty wind.

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  1. Isaiah 41:27 Or Formerly I said