Isaiah 48:3

48:3 “I announced events beforehand, ¹ 

I issued the decrees and made the predictions; ² 

suddenly I acted and they came to pass.

Isaiah 48:5-8

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! ³ 

Will you not admit that what I say is true? ⁴ 

From this point on I am announcing to you new events

that are previously unrevealed and you do not know about. ⁵ 

48:7 Now they come into being, ⁶  not in the past;

before today you did not hear about them,

so you could not say,

‘Yes, ⁷  I know about them.’

48:8 You did not hear,

you do not know,

you were not told beforehand. ⁸ 

For I know that you are very deceitful; ⁹ 

you were labeled ¹⁰  a rebel from birth.

[48:3]  ¹ tn Heb “the former things beforehand I declared.”

[48:3]  ² tn Heb “and from my mouth they came forth and I caused them to be heard.”

[48:6]  ³ tn Heb “gaze [at] all of it”; KJV “see all this.”

[48:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “[as for] you, will you not declare?”

[48:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “and hidden things, and you do not know them.”

[48:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “are created” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “They are brand new.”

[48:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “look”; KJV, NASB “Behold.”

[48:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “beforehand your ear did not open.”

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

[48:8]  ⁹ tn Or “called” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).