Thou hast heard, behold all this, and will not ye [a]declare it? I have showed thee new things, even now, and hid things, which thou knewest not.

They are created now, and not of old, and even before this thou heardest them not, lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I [b]knew them.

Yet thou heardest them not, neither didst know them, neither yet was thine ear opened of old; for I knew that thou wouldest grievously transgress: therefore have I called thee a transgressor from the [c]womb.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 48:6 Will ye not acknowledge this my benefit, and declare it unto others?
  2. Isaiah 48:7 Showing that man’s arrogance is the cause why God doth not declare all things at once, lest they should attribute this knowledge to their own wisdom.
  3. Isaiah 48:8 From the time that I brought thee out of Egypt: for that deliverance was as the birth of the Church.

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