Isaiah 48:6

48:6 You have heard; now look at all the evidence! ¹ 

Will you not admit that what I say is true? ² 

From this point on I am announcing to you new events

that are previously unrevealed and you do not know about. ³ 

Isaiah 44:8

44:8 Don’t panic! Don’t be afraid! ⁴ 

Did I not tell you beforehand and decree it?

You are my witnesses! Is there any God but me?

There is no other sheltering rock; ⁵  I know of none.

Isaiah 48:5

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]  ¹ tn Heb “gaze [at] all of it”; KJV “see all this.”

[48:6]  ² tn Heb “[as for] you, will you not declare?”

[48:6]  ³ tn Heb “and hidden things, and you do not know them.”

[44:8]  ⁴ tn BDB 923 s.v. רָהָה derives this verb from an otherwise unattested root, while HALOT 403 s.v. יָרָה defines it as “be stupefied” on the basis of an Arabic cognate. The form is likely a corruption of תיראו, the reading attested in the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a.

[44:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “rock” or “rocky cliff,” a title that depicts God as a protective refuge in his role as sovereign king; thus the translation “sheltering rock.”