21. Bring your case forward, says the Lord. Bring it here, if you have anything to allege, says the King of Jacob.
22. Let them approach and announce to us the things that will occur. Announce to us the things that were before. And we will apply our heart to them, and we will know their end. And so, reveal to us the things that will occur.
23. Announce the things that will occur in the future, and we will know that you are gods. Likewise, accomplish good or evil, if you are able, and let us speak of it and see it together.
24. Behold, you exist out of nothing, and your work is from what does not exist; he who has chosen you is an abomination.
25. I have raised up one from the north, and he will arrive from the rising of the sun. He will call upon my name, and he will reduce magistrates to mud, like a potter working with clay.
26. Who has announced this from its rising, so that we may know it, or from its beginning, so that we may say, "You are just." There is no one who either announces, or predicts, or hears your words.
27. The first one will say to Zion: "Behold, they are here," and to Jerusalem, "I will present an evangelist."
28. And I saw, and there was no one among any of them to consult, or who, when I asked, could answer a word.
29. Behold, they are all unjust, and their works are empty. Their idols are wind and emptiness.