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The Book of Isaiah, Chapter 41, Verse 21

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That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
King James Version
Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong [reasons], saith the King of Jacob.
American Standard Version
Produce your cause, saith Jehovah; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
New English Translation
The Lord Challenges the Pagan Gods“Present your argument,” says the LORD.“Produce your evidence,” says Jacob’s king.
World English Bible
Produce your cause," says Yahweh. "Bring forth your strong reasons," says the King of Jacob.
22
Let them bring [them] forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they [be], that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.
23
Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye [are] gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold [it] together.
24
Behold, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination [is he that] chooseth you.
25
I have raised up [one] from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as [upon] morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
26
Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, [He is] righteous? yea, [there is] none that sheweth, yea, [there is] none that declareth, yea, [there is] none that heareth your words.
27
The first [shall say] to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
28
For I beheld, and [there was] no man; even among them, and [there was] no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
29
Behold, they [are] all vanity; their works [are] nothing: their molten images [are] wind and confusion.
1
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, [in whom] my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
2
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.