5
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.’
6
“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.
7
“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]

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