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Isaiah 48:3-8

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48:3 “I announced events beforehand, 1 

I issued the decrees and made the predictions; 2 

suddenly I acted and they came to pass.

48:4 I did this 3  because I know how stubborn you are.

Your neck muscles are like iron

and your forehead like bronze. 4 

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! 5 

Will you not admit that what I say is true? 6 

From this point on I am announcing to you new events

that are previously unrevealed and you do not know about. 7 

48:7 Now they come into being, 8  not in the past;

before today you did not hear about them,

so you could not say,

‘Yes, 9  I know about them.’

48:8 You did not hear,

you do not know,

you were not told beforehand. 10 

For I know that you are very deceitful; 11 

you were labeled 12  a rebel from birth.

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[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.”

[48:4]  3 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]  4 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]  5 tn Heb “gaze [at] all of it”; KJV “see all this.”

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

[48:6]  7 tn Heb “and hidden things, and you do not know them.”

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

[48:7]  8 tn Heb “look”; KJV, NASB “Behold.”

[48:8]  9 tn Heb “beforehand your ear did not open.”

[48:8]  10 tn Heb “deceiving, you deceive.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.

[48:8]  11 tn Or “called” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).



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