Isaiah 48:3-8
New King James Version
3 “I have (A)declared the former things from the beginning;
They went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to hear it.
Suddenly I did them, (B)and they came to pass.
4 Because I knew that you were [a]obstinate,
And (C)your neck was an iron sinew,
And your brow bronze,
5 Even from the beginning I have declared it to you;
Before it came to pass I proclaimed it to you,
Lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them,
And my carved image and my molded image
Have commanded them.’
6 “You have heard;
See all this.
And will you not declare it?
I have made you hear new things from this time,
Even hidden things, and you did not know them.
7 They are created now and not from the beginning;
And before this day you have not heard them,
Lest you should say, ‘Of course I knew them.’
8 Surely you did not hear,
Surely you did not know;
Surely from long ago your ear was not opened.
For I knew that you would deal very treacherously,
And were called (D)a transgressor from the womb.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 48:4 Heb. hard
Isaiah 48:16
New King James Version
16 “Come near to Me, hear this:
(A)I have not spoken in secret from the beginning;
From the time that it was, I was there.
And now (B)the Lord God and His Spirit
[a]Have sent Me.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 48:16 Heb. verb is sing.; or Has sent Me and His Spirit
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