Isaiah 41:22

41:22 “Let them produce evidence! Let them tell us what will happen!

Tell us about your earlier predictive oracles, ¹ 

so we may examine them ²  and see how they were fulfilled. ³ 

Or decree for us some future events!

Isaiah 41:26

41:26 Who decreed this from the beginning, so we could know?

Who announced it ⁴  ahead of time, so we could say, ‘He’s correct’?

Indeed, none of them decreed it!

Indeed, none of them announced it!

Indeed, no one heard you say anything!

Isaiah 43:9

43:9 All nations gather together,

the peoples assemble.

Who among them announced this?

Who predicted earlier events for us? ⁵ 

Let them produce their witnesses to testify they were right;

let them listen and affirm, ‘It is true.’

Isaiah 43:12

43:12 I decreed and delivered and proclaimed,

and there was no other god among you.

You are my witnesses,” says the Lord, “that I am God.

Isaiah 45:21

45:21 Tell me! Present the evidence! ⁶ 

Let them consult with one another!

Who predicted this in the past?

Who announced it beforehand?

Was it not I, the Lord?

I have no peer, there is no God but me,

a God who vindicates and delivers; ⁷ 

there is none but me.

Isaiah 46:9-10

46:9 Remember what I accomplished in antiquity! ⁸ 

Truly I am God, I have no peer; ⁹ 

I am God, and there is none like me,

46:10 who announces the end from the beginning

and reveals beforehand ¹⁰  what has not yet occurred,

who says, ‘My plan will be realized,

I will accomplish what I desire,’

Isaiah 48:3-8

48:3 “I announced events beforehand, ¹¹ 

I issued the decrees and made the predictions; ¹² 

suddenly I acted and they came to pass.

48:4 I did this ¹³  because I know how stubborn you are.

Your neck muscles are like iron

and your forehead like bronze. ¹⁴ 

48:5 I announced them to you beforehand;

before they happened, I predicted them for you,

so you could never say,

‘My image did these things,

my idol, my cast image, decreed them.’

48:6 You have heard; now look at all the evidence! ¹⁵ 

Will you not admit that what I say is true? ¹⁶ 

From this point on I am announcing to you new events

that are previously unrevealed and you do not know about. ¹⁷ 

48:7 Now they come into being, ¹⁸  not in the past;

before today you did not hear about them,

so you could not say,

‘Yes, ¹⁹  I know about them.’

48:8 You did not hear,

you do not know,

you were not told beforehand. ²⁰ 

For I know that you are very deceitful; ²¹ 

you were labeled ²²  a rebel from birth.

[41:22]  ¹ tn Heb “As for the former things, tell us what they are!”

[41:22]  ² tn Heb “so we might set [them to] our heart.”

[41:22]  ³ tn Heb “and might know their outcome.”

[41:26]  ⁴ tn The words “who announced it” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The interrogative particle and verb are understood by ellipsis (see the preceding line).

[43:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the former things was causing us to hear?”

[45:21]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Declare! Bring near!”; NASB “Declare and set forth your case.” See 41:21.

[45:21]  ¹¹ tn Or “a righteous God and deliverer”; NASB, NIV, NRSV “a righteous God and a Savior.”

[46:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “remember the former things, from antiquity”; KJV, ASV “the former things of old.”

[46:9]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and there is no other” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[46:10]  ¹⁶ tn Or “from long ago”; KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV “from ancient times.”

[48:3]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “the former things beforehand I declared.”

[48:3]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and from my mouth they came forth and I caused them to be heard.”

[48:4]  ²² tn The words “I did this” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. In the Hebrew text v. 4 is subordinated to v. 3.

[48:4]  ²³ sn The image is that of a person who has tensed the muscles of the face and neck as a sign of resolute refusal.

[48:6]  ²⁵ tn Heb “gaze [at] all of it”; KJV “see all this.”

[48:6]  ²⁶ tn Heb “[as for] you, will you not declare?”

[48:6]  ²⁷ tn Heb “and hidden things, and you do not know them.”

[48:7]  ²⁸ tn Heb “are created” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “They are brand new.”

[48:7]  ²⁹ tn Heb “look”; KJV, NASB “Behold.”

[48:8]  ³¹ tn Heb “beforehand your ear did not open.”

[48:8]  ³² tn Heb “deceiving, you deceive.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.

[48:8]  ³³ tn Or “called” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).