Isaiah 41:22-27

22Let them bring them forward, and declare to us what shall happen: shew the former things, what they are, that we may give attention to them, and know the end of them; — or let us hear things to come:

23declare the things that are to happen hereafter, that we may know that ye are 1gods; yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be astonished, and behold it together.

24Behold, ye are less than nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you. ...

25I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come, — from the rising of the sun, he who will call upon my name; and he shall come upon princes as on mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay.

26Who hath declared [it] from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, [It is] right? Indeed, there is none that declareth; no, none that sheweth; no, none that heareth your words.

27The first, [I said] to Zion, Behold, behold them! and to Jerusalem, I will give one that bringeth glad tidings.