Isaiah 48:3-5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³ The former things I declared long ago,
    they went out from my mouth and I made them known;
    then suddenly I did them and they came to pass.
⁴ Because I know that you are obstinate,
    and your neck is an iron sinew
    and your forehead brass,
⁵ I declared them to you from long ago,
    before they came to pass I announced them to you,
so that you would not say, ‘My idol did them,
    my carved image and my cast image commanded them.’