22 Let them bring them up, and tell us what shall happen; tell ye of the former things, what they be, that we may apply our heart, and learn their issue; or make us to hear the things that are coming.

23 Tell the things that are. to come hereafter, that, we may learn that ye are gods; yea, do good and do evil, that we may look around, and see (it) together.

24 Behold ye are of nought, and your work of nothingness: an abomination is he that chooseth you.

25 I have roused up one from the north, and he came: from the rising of the sun one that ’calleth on my name; and he shall come upon rulers as morter, and as a ‘potter (that) treadeth clay.

26 Who hath told from the beginning, that we may know? and from before, that we may say, It is right! Yea, there, is nOne that telleth, yea none that maketh to be heard, yea none that heareth your words. ’

19. ‘oil-tree,’ i.e. oleaster: for ‘fir,’ and ‘larch,’ perhaps ‘cypress’ and ‘sherhin tree'24. ‘nothingness’: word supposed to have this meaning, though the form here used differs by a letter, and means strictly ‘a ’25. ‘calleth ’: or, ‘proclaimeth my ’ ‘come ’: some alter slightly to ‘trample.’

27 First to Zion, Behold, behold them; and to Jerusalem will I give one that bringeth good tidings.

28 And I saw, and there was no man; and among these, and there was no counsellor, that I should ask of them, and they should answer a word.

29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are ’; their molten images are wind and wasteness.