16“You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away,
         And the storm will scatter them;
         But you will rejoice in the LORD,
         You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

17“The afflicted and needy are seeking water, but there is none,
         And their tongue is parched with thirst;
         I, the LORD, will answer them Myself,
         As the God of Israel I will not forsake them.

18“I will open rivers on the bare heights
         And springs in the midst of the valleys;
         I will make the wilderness a pool of water
         And the dry land fountains of water.

19“I will put the cedar in the wilderness,
         The acacia and the myrtle and the olive tree;
         I will place the juniper in the desert
         Together with the box tree and the cypress,

20That they may see and recognize,
         And consider and gain insight as well,
         That the hand of the LORD has done this,
         And the Holy One of Israel has created it.

21“Present your case,” the LORD says.
         “Bring forward your strong arguments,”
         The King of Jacob says.

22Let them bring forth and declare to us what is going to take place;
         As for the former events, declare what they were,
         That we may consider them and know their outcome.
         Or announce to us what is coming;

23Declare the things that are going to come afterward,
         That we may know that you are gods;
         Indeed, do good or evil, that we may anxiously look about us and fear together.

24Behold, you are of no account,
         And your work amounts to nothing;
         He who chooses you is an abomination.

25“I have aroused one from the north, and he has come;
         From the rising of the sun he will call on My name;
         And he will come upon rulers as upon mortar,
         Even as the potter treads clay.”

26Who has declared this from the beginning, that we might know?
         Or from former times, that we may say, “He is right!”?
         Surely there was no one who declared,
         Surely there was no one who proclaimed,
         Surely there was no one who heard your words.

27“Formerly I said to Zion, ‘Behold, here they are.’
         And to Jerusalem, ‘I will give a messenger of good news.’

28“But when I look, there is no one,
         And there is no counselor among them
         Who, if I ask, can give an answer.

29“Behold, all of them are false;
         Their works are worthless,
         Their molten images are wind and emptiness.

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