Isaiah 41:21-29
False gods have no power
‘Come and show me what you can do!
Tell me clearly what power you have!
Let them tell us what will happen in future years.
Let them tell us what happened in the past.
Then we can think about those things.
We will understand what happened in the end.
Or ask them to tell us about future events!
we will know that they really are gods.
Tell them to do something,
a good thing or a bad thing.
That would really surprise us,
or even frighten us!
There is nothing that they can do.
Anybody who chooses to
has turned against God!
who is coming with his army from the north.
He comes from a land in the east, where the sun rises,
and he will use my name to call to me.
He will walk over rulers of other
as if they are
He will push them down with his feet,
like a
that all these things must happen?
Who told us about them before they happened?
Then we could say, “He was right!”
None of your idols said anything about it!
Nobody heard them say a word!
to tell the good news to
I sent someone to Jerusalem to say,
“Look, they have arrived!”
to see who might be a good
But none of them could help.
None of them could answer my questions.
They can do nothing.
Their