24. “See, you are of naught, and your work a breath; he who chooses you is an abomination.
25. “I have stirred up one from the north, and he comes; from the rising of the sun he calls on My Name. And he comes against princes as though mortar, as the potter treads clay.
26. “Who has declared from the beginning, and we know? and former times, and we say, ‘He is righteous’? No, no one is declaring; no, no one is proclaiming; no, no one is hearing your words.
27. “He who is First said to Tsiyon, ‘See, see them!’ And to Yerushalayim I give one who brings good news.
28. “And I see that there is no man, and of these, there is no counsellor, who, when I ask of them, answers a word.
29. “See, all of them are useless, their works are naught, their moulded images are wind and confusion.