Let them draw near, and declare to you what things shall come to pass; or tell [us] what things were of old, and we will apply [our] understanding, and we shall know what are the last and the future things;

All the nations are gathered together, and princes shall be gathered out of them; who will declare these things? Or who will declare to you things from the beginning? Let them bring forth their witnesses, and be justified; and let them hear, and declare the truth.

Who is like Me? Let him stand, and call, and declare, and prepare for Me from the time that I made man forever; and let them tell you the things that are coming before they arrive.

Assemble yourselves and come; take counsel together, you that escape from the nations. They that set up wood, [even] their graven image, have no knowledge, nor do they who pray to gods that do not save.

If they will declare, let them draw near, that they may know together, who has caused these things to be heard from the beginning; then was it told you. I am God, and there is not another beside Me; a just [God] and a Savior; there is none besides Me.

Thus says the Lord God to My anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, that nations might be obedient before him; and I will break through the strength of kings; I will open doors before him, and cities shall not be closed.

And I will give you the treasures of darkness, I will open to you hidden, unseen [treasures], that you may know that I, the Lord your God, that call you by name, am the God of Israel.

Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack: Go, sell all that you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me."

A voice of many nations on the mountains, [even] like [to that] of many nations; a voice of kings and nations gathered together; the Lord of hosts has given command to a war-like nation,

to come from a land afar off, from the utmost foundation of heaven; the Lord and His warriors [are coming] to destroy all the world.

Behold, I will stir up the Medes against you, who do not regard silver, neither have they need of gold.

They shall break the bows of the young men; and they shall have no mercy on your children; nor shall their eyes spare your children.

Who bids Cyrus, Be wise, and he shall perform all My will; who says to Jerusalem, You shall be built, and I will lay the foundation of My holy house.

calling a bird from the east, and from a land afar off, for the things which I have planned; I have spoken, and brought [him]; I have created and made [him]; I have brought him, and prospered his way.

on the land, says the Lord. Go up against it roughly, and against them that dwell on it. Avenge, O sword, and destroy utterly, says the Lord, and do according to all that I command you.

How has the hammer of the whole earth been broken and crushed! How has Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

The Lord has opened His treasury, and brought forth the weapons of His anger; for the Lord God [has] a work in the land of the Chaldeans.

Dry up all her fruits, and let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, and the time of their retribution.

Summon many against Babylon, everyone that bends the bow. Camp against her round about; let none of her [people] escape. Render to her according to her works, according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has resisted the Lord, the Holy God of Israel.

You scatter for Me the weapons of war, and I will scatter nations by you, and will destroy kings by means of you.

And by you I will scatter youth and maid; and by you I will scatter man and woman.

And I will recompense to Babylon and to all the Chaldeans that dwell [there] all the evil that they have done to Zion before your eyes, says the Lord.