Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
Who among them can declare this? - who among the idolatrous sooth sayers hath predicted this? - i:e., as to Cyrus being the deliverer of Israel.
And show us former things - former predictions, as in Isaiah 42:9 (Maurer). Or, things that shall first come to pass (note, Isaiah 41:21-22) (Barnes).
Let them bring forth their witnesses - as I do mine (Isaiah 43:10).
That they may be justified - declared veracious in their pretended prophecies (note, Isaiah 41:26).
Or let them hear, and say, (It is) truth - or, as the other alternative, let them hear the witnesses on my side, and say, as the result, that the truth is on my side-that I alone am God.