Isaiah 48:3
I predicted long ago what was going to happen—I said it and let people know. Then suddenly I decided to act, and it all came true.
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4I know how stubborn you are, with necks as unbending as iron and foreheads as hard as bronze.
Cross References
Joshua 21:45Not a single one of the good things the Lord promised Israel had failed; everything had come true.
Isaiah 10:12Once the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will punish the king of Assyria for his terrible arrogance and for the conceited look in his eyes.
Isaiah 37:7Look, I'm going to scare him—he'll hear a rumor, and he'll have to return to his own country. When he's there I'll have him killed by the sword.”
Isaiah 37:36Then the angel of the Lord went to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 of them. When the survivors woke up in the morning, they were surrounded by dead bodies.
Isaiah 42:9Notice that what I foretold has come true, as will the new things I'm saying to you now. I tell you what will happen before it does.”
Isaiah 44:7Who is like me? Let them announce it, make a declaration, and demonstrate it before me. For I was the one who long ago established a people and predicted its future. Let them predict what's going to happen.
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 →