Predict how future events will turn out, ¹  so we might know you are gods. Yes, do something good or bad, so we might be frightened and in awe. ² 

biblegateway Isa 41:23

Declare the things that are going to come afterward, That we may know that you are gods; Indeed, do good or evil, that we may anxiously look about us and fear together.

Tell us the coming events, then we will know that you are gods. Indeed, do something good or bad, then we will be in awe and perceive.

Tell us what’s going to happen so that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do something, good or evil, to intimidate us and make us afraid.

biblegateway Isa 41:23

tell us what the future holds, so that we may know you are gods. Do something, whether good or bad, so that we will be dismayed and filled with fear.

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.

bibleoremus Isa 41:23

Tell us what is to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; do good, or do harm, that we may be afraid and terrified.

Declare what is yet to happen; then we shall know you are gods. Do something, whether good or bad, anything that will strike us with dismay and fear.

biblegateway Isa 41:23

Show the things that are to come hereafter, That we may know that you are gods; Yes, do good or do evil, That we may be dismayed and see it together.

Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye [are] gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold [it] together.

biblegateway Isa 41:23

Predict how future events will turn out, ¹  so we might know you are gods. Yes, do something good or bad, so we might be frightened and in awe. ² 

¹ tn Heb “Declare the coming things, with respect to the end.”

² tc The translation assumes the Qere (וְנִרְאֶה [vÿnir’eh], from יָרֵא [yare’], “be afraid”).

² tn Heb “so we might be frightened and afraid together.” On the meaning of the verb שָׁתָע (shata’), see the note at v. 10.