Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
what shall happen—"Let them bring near and declare future contingencies" [HORSLEY].
former things . . . the latter end of them—show what former predictions the idols have given, that we may compare the event ("latter end") with them; or give new prophecies ("declare things to come") (Isaiah 42:9), [MAURER]. BARNES explains it more reconditely, "Let them foretell the entire series of events, showing, in their order, the things which shall first occur, as well as those which shall finally happen"; the false prophets tried to predict isolated events, having no mutual dependency; not a long series of events mutually and orderly connected, and stretching far into futurity. They did not even try to do this. None but God can do it (Isaiah 46:10; Isaiah 44:7-8). "Or . . . things to come" will, in this view, mean, Let them, if they cannot predict the series, even predict plainly any detached events.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 41:22:
Isaiah 41:21
Isaiah 43:9
Isaiah 43:12
Isaiah 44:7
Isaiah 45:21
Isaiah 46:10
Isaiah 48:14
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