Discovery BoxIsaiah 41:22-23 
Context41:22 “Let them produce evidence! Let them tell us what will happen!
Tell us about your earlier predictive oracles, 1
so we may examine them 2 and see how they were fulfilled. 3
Or decree for us some future events!
41:23 Predict how future events will turn out, 4
so we might know you are gods.
Yes, do something good or bad,
so we might be frightened and in awe. 5
1 tn Heb “As for the former things, tell us what they are!”
2 tn Heb “so we might set [them to] our heart.”
3 tn Heb “and might know their outcome.”
4 tn Heb “Declare the coming things, with respect to the end.”
5 tc The translation assumes the Qere (וְנִרְאֶה [vÿnir’eh], from יָרֵא [yare’], “be afraid”).
tn Heb “so we might be frightened and afraid together.” On the meaning of the verb שָׁתָע (shata’), see the note at v. 10.
