Isaiah 48:6

All this has come to your ears and you have seen it; will you not give witness to it? I am now making clear new things, even secret things, of which you had no knowledge.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.

In Context

5For this reason I made it clear to you in the past, before it came I gave you word of it: for fear that you might say, My god did these things, and my pictured and metal images made them come about.

7They have only now been effected, and not in the past: and before this day they had not come to your ears; for fear that you might say, I had knowledge of them.

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Cross References

Psalms 40:9\40:8\My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.

Psalms 78:3Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers.

Psalms 119:13With my lips have I made clear all the decisions of your mouth.

Isaiah 21:10O my crushed ones, the grain of my floor! I have given you the word which came to me from the Lord of armies, the God of Israel.

Isaiah 42:9See, 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 43:8Send out the blind people who have eyes, and those who have ears, but they are shut.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 48:2-9

God's Expostulation with His People. ( b. c. 708.) 1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the Lord , and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness. 2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The Lord of hosts is his name. 3 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed… Read the whole commentary →

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