Isaiah 41:24-26

New English Translation

²⁴ Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent;
the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting.^[a]
25 I have stirred up one out of the north^[b] and he advances,
one from the eastern horizon who prays in my name.^[c]
He steps on^[d] rulers as if they were clay,
like a potter treading the clay.
²⁶ Who decreed this from the beginning, so we could know?
Who announced it^[e] ahead of time, so we could say, ‘He’s correct’?
Indeed, none of them decreed it.
Indeed, none of them announced it.
Indeed, no one heard you say anything!