Isaiah 41:27-29

New International Reader's Version

²⁷ I was the first to tell Zion.
    I said, ‘Look! The people of Israel are coming back!’
    I sent a messenger to Jerusalem with the good news.
²⁸ I look, but there is no one
    among the gods that can give me advice.
None of them can answer
    when I ask them the simplest question.
²⁹ So they are not really gods at all.
    What they do does not amount to anything.
    They are as useless as wind.