Isaiah 48:5-7

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Therefore I declared them to you long ago,
Before ^(a)they took place I proclaimed them to you,
So that you would not say, ‘My ^(A)idol has done them,
And my graven image and my molten image have commanded them.’

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“You have heard; look at all this.
And you, will you not declare it?
I proclaim to you ^(B)new things from this time,
Even hidden things which you have not known.

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“They are created now and not long ago;
And before today you have not heard them,
So that you will not say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’

Footnotes:

a. Isaiah 48:5: ['Lit ', it]

Cross references:

A. Isaiah 48:5: Jeremiah 44:15-18

B. Isaiah 48:6: Isaiah 42:9; Isaiah 43:19