Isaiah 48:3

Yahweh Refines Stubborn Israel

² For they name themselves after the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel the LORD of the Heavenly Armies is his name. ³ I foretold the former things long ago; it went forth from my mouth, and I disclosed them; Suddenly, I acted, and they came to pass. ⁴ Because I knew that you are obstinate, and because your neck is an iron sinew, and your forehead is bronze,

Former Things

From the Beginning

Says the Lord

In The Future

Israel

Isaiah 41:22

Let them approach and ask us, "What will happen? As to the former things, what were they? Tell us, so that we may consider them and know. Or the latter things or the things to come let us hear.

Isaiah 42:9

See, the former things have taken place, and I'm announcing the new things before they spring into being I'm telling you about them."

Isaiah 45:21

Explain and present a case! Yes, let them take counsel together. Who announced this long ago, who declared it from the distant past? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no other God besides me, a righteous God and Savior; and there is none besides me.

Joshua 21:45

Not one of the good promises that the LORD had made to the house of Israel failed all of them came about.

Isaiah 43:9

Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the nations be assembled. "Who is there among them who can declare this, or announce the former things? Let them produce their witnesses to prove them right, and let them proclaim so people will say, "It's true.'

Isaiah 44:7-8

Who is like me? Let him proclaim and declare it, and lay it out for himself since he made an ancient people. And let him speak future events; let them tell him what will happen.

Joshua 23:14-15

"Look here: today I'm going down the path that everyone on earth takes, and you know with all your hearts and souls that not a single word of all of the good things that the LORD your God spoke about you has failed to happen. Everything has been fulfilled about you not one of them has failed.

Isaiah 10:12-19

"For the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and against Jerusalem; he will punish the speech that comes from that willful heart of Assyria's king and the haughty look in his eyes.

Isaiah 10:33-34

Behold, the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies will lop off its boughs with terrifying power; the tallest in height will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.

Isaiah 37:7

Watch this! I'm going to place an attitude within him, so that when he hears a certain report, he'll return to his own country. Then I'll have him cut down by the sword in his own land."

Isaiah 37:29

Your insolence has reached my ears, so I'll put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I'll make you turn back on the road by which you came.

Isaiah 37:36-38

After this, the angel of the LORD went out and put to death 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When Hezekiah's army awakened in the morning there were all the dead bodies!

Isaiah 46:9-10

Remember the former things from long ago, Because I am God, and there is no one else; I am God, and there is none like me.