21. “Present the case for your idols,”says the lord.“Let them show what they can do,”says the King of Israel.
22. “Let them try to tell us what happened long agoso that we may consider the evidence.Or let them tell us what the future holds,so we can know what’s going to happen.
23. Yes, tell us what will occur in the days ahead.Then we will know you are gods.In fact, do anything—good or bad!Do something that will amaze and frighten us.
24. But no! You are less than nothing and can do nothing at all.Those who choose you pollute themselves.
25. “But I have stirred up a leader who will approach from the north.From the east he will call on my name.I will give him victory over kings and princes.He will trample them as a potter treads on clay.