🕊️WEB · Isaiah 48:5
What does Isaiah 48:5 mean?
"therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I showed it to you; lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them, and my engraved image, and my molten image, has commanded them.’"
— Isaiah 48:5 (World English Bible)
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(for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name):
I have declared the former things from of old; yes, they went out of my mouth, and I revealed them. I did them suddenly, and they happened.
Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;
therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I showed it to you; lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them, and my engraved image, and my molten image, has commanded them.’
You have heard it; see all this. And you, won’t you declare it? “I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.
They are created now, and not from of old; and before today you didn’t hear them; lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
Yes, you didn’t hear; yes, you didn’t know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.
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