21 “Present your case,” says the Lord.
“Bring forth your strong reasons,” says the ^aKing of Jacob. ‡

22 “Let^a them bring forth and show us what will happen;
Let them show the ^bformer things, what they were,
That we may¹ consider them,
And know the latter end of them;
Or declare to us things to come. ‡

24 Indeed ^ayou are nothing,
And your work is nothing;
He who chooses you is an abomination. ‡

25 “I have raised up one from the¹ north,
And he shall come;
From the rising of the sun ^ahe shall call on My name;
^bAnd he shall come against princes as though mortar,
As the potter treads clay. ‡