48:3 “I announced events beforehand, 1
I issued the decrees and made the predictions; 2
suddenly I acted and they came to pass.
48:5 I announced them to you beforehand;
before they happened, I predicted them for you,
so you could never say,
‘My image did these things,
my idol, my cast image, decreed them.’
48:6 You have heard; now look at all the evidence! 3
Will you not admit that what I say is true? 4
From this point on I am announcing to you new events
that are previously unrevealed and you do not know about. 5
48:7 Now they come into being, 6 not in the past;
before today you did not hear about them,
so you could not say,
‘Yes, 7 I know about them.’
48:8 You did not hear,
you do not know,
you were not told beforehand. 8
For I know that you are very deceitful; 9
you were labeled 10 a rebel from birth.
1 tn Heb “the former things beforehand I declared.”
2 tn Heb “and from my mouth they came forth and I caused them to be heard.”
3 tn Heb “gaze [at] all of it”; KJV “see all this.”
4 tn Heb “[as for] you, will you not declare?”
5 tn Heb “and hidden things, and you do not know them.”
6 tn Heb “are created” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “They are brand new.”
7 tn Heb “look”; KJV, NASB “Behold.”
8 tn Heb “beforehand your ear did not open.”
9 tn Heb “deceiving, you deceive.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.
10 tn Or “called” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).