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Isaiah 48:7

Verse 7 of 22. The 48th of 66 chapters in Isaiah, in The Major Prophets.

3I have declared the former things from of old. Yes, they went out of my mouth, and I revealed them. I did them suddenly, and they happened.

4Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;

5therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I showed it to you; lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them. My engraved image and my molten image has commanded them.’

6You have heard it. Now see all this. And you, won’t you declare it? “I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.

7They are created now, and not from of old. Before today, you didn’t hear them, lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’

8Yes, you didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

9For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger, and for my praise, I hold it back for you so that I don’t cut you off.

10Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

11For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it; for how would my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.