Isaiah 48:3–8

³From the beginning I revealed to you what would happen. 

These words came out of my mouth, 

and I made them known. 

Suddenly, I acted, and they happened. 

⁴I know that you are stubborn. 

Like iron, you are hardheaded. 

Like bronze, nothing gets through your thick skull. 

⁵That is why I revealed to you what would happen long ago. 

I told you about them before they happened. 

⸤I did this⸥ so you couldn’t say, 

“My gods have done these things. 

My carved idols and my metal idols 

have commanded them to happen.” 

⁶You’ve heard these words. 

Now look at all this. 

Won’t you admit it? 

From now on I will reveal to you new things, 

hidden things that you do not know. 

⁷They are created now, not in the past. 

You haven’t heard about them before today, 

so you can’t say that you already knew about them. 

⁸You have never heard about them. 

You have never known about them. 

Your ears have never been open to hear them before. 

I know that you’ve acted very treacherously 

and that you have been called a rebel since you were born.