17. When the poor and needy seek water,and there is none,and their tongue is parched with thirst,I the Lord will answer them;I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
18. I will open rivers on the bare heights,and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water,and the dry land springs of water.
19. I will put in the wilderness the cedar,the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive.I will set in the desert the cypress,the plane and the pine together,
20. that they may see and know,may consider and understand together,that the hand of the Lord has done this,the Holy One of Israel has created it.
21. Set forth your case, says the Lord;bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob.
22. Let them bring them, and tell uswhat is to happen.Tell us the former things, what they are,that we may consider them,that we may know their outcome;or declare to us the things to come.
23. Tell us what is to come hereafter,that we may know that you are gods; do good, or do harm,that we may be dismayed and terrified.
24. Behold, you are nothing,and your work is less than nothing;an abomination is he who chooses you.
25. I stirred up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, and he shall call upon my name;he shall trample on rulers as on mortar,as the potter treads clay.