26 Who has declared this from the beginning, so that we may know, and from times past, so that we may say: ‘He was right’? No one announced it, no one foretold it, no one heard your words. 27 I was the first to tell Zion: ‘Look, here they are!’ And I gave to Jerusalem a herald of good news. 28 When I look, there is no one; there is no counselor among them; when I ask them, they have nothing to say.
Isaiah 41:26–28
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