24. Why, you are nothingand your work is nought;to choose you is an abomination!
25. I have stirred up one from the north, and he comes;from the east I summon him by name;He shall trample the rulers down like mud,like a potter treading clay.
26. Who announced this from the beginning, that we might know;beforehand, that we might say, “True”?Not one of you foretold it, not one spoke;not one heard you say,
27. “The first news for Zion: here they come,”or, “I will give Jerusalem a herald of good news.”
28. When I look, there is not one,not one of them to give counsel,to make an answer when I question them.
29. Ah, all of them are nothing,their works are nought,their idols, empty wind!