Isaiah 41:25-29
25“I have awakened aone from the north, and he has come;From the rising of the sun he will call on My name;And he will come upon officials as upon bmortar,Even as the potter treads clay.”26Who has adeclared this from the beginning, that we might know?Or from former times, that we may say, “He is right!”?Surely there was bno one who declared;Surely there was no one who caused those words to be heard;Surely there was no one who heard your words.27“aFormerly I said to Zion, ‘Behold, here they are.’And to Jerusalem, ‘I will give a bmessenger of good news.’28“But aI look, and there is no one,And there is no bcounselor 1among themWho, if I ask, can crespond with a word.29“Behold, all of them are 1false;Their aworks are bnon-existent;Their molten images are cwind and utter formlessness.