Isaiah 48:3

Yahweh Refines Stubborn Israel

² For they say that they are of the holy town, and put their faith in the God of Israel: the Lord of armies is his name. ³ I gave word in the past of the things which came about; they came from my mouth, and I made them clear: suddenly I did them, and they came about. ⁴ Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;

Former Things

From the Beginning

Says the Lord

In The Future

Israel

Isaiah 41:22

Let the future be made clear to us: give us news of the past things, so that we may give thought to them; or of the things to come, so that we may see if they are true.

Isaiah 42:9

See, the things said before have come about, and now I give word of new things: before they come I give you news of them.

Isaiah 45:21

Give the word, put forward your cause, let us have a discussion together: who has given news of this in the past? who made it clear in early times? did not I, the Lord? and there is no God but me; a true God and a saviour; there is no other.

Joshua 21:45

The Lord kept faith with the house of Israel about all the good which he said he would do for them, and all his words came true.

Isaiah 43:9

Let all the nations come together, and let the peoples be present: who among them is able to make this clear, and give us word of earlier things? let their witnesses come forward, so that they may be seen to be true, and that they may give ear, and say, It is true.

Isaiah 44:7-8

If there is one like me, let him come forward and say it, let him make it clear and put it in order before me: who has made clear in the past the things to come? let him make clear the future to me.

Joshua 23:14-15

Now I am about to go the way of all the earth: and you have seen and are certain, all of you, in your hearts and souls, that in all the good things which the Lord said about you, he has kept faith with you; everything has come true for you

Isaiah 10:12-19

For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes.

Isaiah 10:33-34

See, the Lord, the Lord of armies, is cutting off his branches with a great noise, and his strong ones are falling and his high ones are coming down.

Isaiah 37:7

See, I will put a spirit into him, and bad news will come to his ears, and he will go back to his land; and there I will have him put to death.

Isaiah 37:29

Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.

Isaiah 37:36-38

And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.

Isaiah 46:9-10

Let the things which are past come to your memory: for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like me;