Isaiah 48:1-7 ▼

1 Hear this, house of Jacob called by the name Israel, sprung from the stock of Judah, You who swear by the name of the LORD and invoke the God of Israel without sincerity, without justice,

2 Though you are named after the holy city and rely on the God of Israel, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

3 Things of the past I declared long ago, they went forth from my mouth, I announced them; then suddenly I took action and they came to be.

4 Because I know that you are stubborn and that your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead bronze,

5 I declared them to you of old; before they took place I informed you, That you might not say, “My idol did them, my statue, my molten image commanded them.”

6 Now that you have heard, look at all this; must you not admit it? From now on I announce new things to you, hidden events you never knew.

7 Now, not from of old, they are created, before today you did not hear of them, so that you cannot claim, “I have known them.”