"Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen: let them show the former things, what they be, that we may consider and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. Show the things that are to come hereafter.... I beheld, and there was no man... that, when I asked of them, could answer a word" (Isaiah 41:21-28). "Be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets... knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts.... They willingly are ignorant" (2 Peter 3:2-5).
Produce your cause! Present your case!
If you can tell the future, speak!
Foretell events that shall take place;
Instruct us where we ought to seek.
We hear no answer, not a word,
Though prophets falsely do abound.
Isaiah's challenge they have heard,
But not a challenger is found!
The rules, we know, are surely plain:
Should not this world count it odd
That mockers mock as they disdain
The proof that comes alone from God?
O Lord, we know that You have spoken;
Your prophets validate Your voice.
The Scripture never shall be broken,
And knowing this, our hearts rejoice!
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