24. Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination.
25. I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come from the rising of the sun: he shall call upon my name, and he shall make princes to be as dirt, and as the potter treading clay.
26. Who bath declared from the beginning, that we may know: and from time of old, that we may say: Thou art just. There is none that sheweth, nor that foretelleth, nor that heareth your words.
27. The first shall say to Sion: Behold they are here, and to Jerusalem I will give an evangelist.
28. And I saw, and there was no one even among them to consult, or who, when I asked, could answer a word.
29. Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity.