Isaiah 48:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

I have declared the former things from the beginning; they went out from my mouth, and I showed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.

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  • Isa 41:22 : 22 Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen: let them show the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare to us things to come.
  • Isa 42:9 : 9 Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
  • Isa 43:9 : 9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
  • Isa 44:7-8 : 7 And who, like Me, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? And the things that are coming, and shall come, let them show to them. 8 Fear not, nor be afraid: have not I told you from that time, and have declared it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides Me? Indeed, there is no other God; I know not any.
  • Isa 45:21 : 21 Declare and bring them near; indeed, let them take counsel together: who has declared this from ancient times? who has told it from that time? have not I, the LORD? and there is no other God besides Me; a just God and a Savior; there is none besides Me.
  • Josh 21:45 : 45 Nothing failed of any good thing which the LORD had spoken to the house of Israel; all came to pass.
  • Josh 23:14-15 : 14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you; all have come to pass for you, and not one thing has failed thereof. 15 Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things have come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you, so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
  • Isa 10:12-19 : 12 Therefore, it shall come to pass, that when the Lord has performed all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. 13 For he says, By the strength of my hand, I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the boundaries of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have brought down the inhabitants like a valiant man; 14 And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathers eggs that are left, I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or chirped. 15 Shall the ax boast against him who cuts with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against him who shakes it? As if the rod should shake itself against those who lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were not wood. 16 Therefore the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory, he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; 18 And shall consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer faints. 19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
  • Isa 10:33-34 : 33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be cut down, and the haughty shall be humbled. 34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by the Mighty One.
  • Isa 37:7 : 7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
  • Isa 37:29 : 29 Because your rage against me and your tumult have come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
  • Isa 37:36-38 : 36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and struck down in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies. 37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. 38 And it happened, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons killed him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
  • Isa 46:9-9 : 9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

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  • Isa 48:4-8
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    85%

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

    5I have declared it to you from the beginning; before it came to pass I showed it to you, lest you should say, 'My idol has done them, and my carved image and my molded image have commanded them.'

    6You have heard; see all this. And will you not declare it? I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, and you did not know them.

    7They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when you heard them not; lest you should say, 'Behold, I knew them.'

    8Yes, you did not hear; yes, you did not know; yes, from that time your ear was not opened: for I knew you would deal very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

  • Isa 42:9
    82%

    9Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

  • Isa 46:9-11
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    9Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,

    10Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

    11Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man who executes my counsel from a far country: yes, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.

  • Isa 48:12-16
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    12Listen to me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

    13My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spanned the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.

    14All of you, assemble yourselves and hear; who among them has declared these things? The LORD has loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

    15I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

    16Come near to me, hear this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, I am there: and now the Lord GOD and his Spirit have sent me.

  • 2 Kgs 19:25
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    25Have you not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now I have brought it to pass, that you should be to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

  • Isa 37:26
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    26Have you not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that you should lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

  • Isa 44:7-8
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    7And who, like Me, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? And the things that are coming, and shall come, let them show to them.

    8Fear not, nor be afraid: have not I told you from that time, and have declared it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides Me? Indeed, there is no other God; I know not any.

  • Isa 43:12-13
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    12I have declared, and have saved, and I have shown, when there was no strange god among you: therefore you are My witnesses, says the LORD, that I am God.

    13Yes, before the day was, I am He; and there is none who can deliver out of My hand: I will work, and who shall hinder it?

  • Jer 11:18
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    18And the LORD has given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then you showed me their doings.

  • Ezek 39:8
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    8Behold, it is coming, and it shall be done, says the Lord GOD; this is the day of which I have spoken.

  • Isa 41:21-22
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    21Produce your cause, says the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, says the King of Jacob.

    22Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen: let them show the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare to us things to come.

  • Isa 41:26-27
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    26Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforehand, that we may say, He is righteous? yes, there is none that shows, yes, there is none that declares, yes, there is none that hears your words.

    27The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that brings good tidings.

  • Isa 45:21
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    21Declare and bring them near; indeed, let them take counsel together: who has declared this from ancient times? who has told it from that time? have not I, the LORD? and there is no other God besides Me; a just God and a Savior; there is none besides Me.

  • Isa 41:4
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    4Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.

  • Isa 43:19
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    19Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

  • Jer 1:12
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    12Then the LORD said to me, You have seen well: for I will hasten My word to perform it.

  • Ezek 24:14
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    14I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to your ways, and according to your deeds, they shall judge you, says the Lord GOD.

  • Isa 45:19
    71%

    19I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Seek Me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

  • Isa 43:9
    70%

    9Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.

  • Isa 45:2-3
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    2I will go before you, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of bronze, and cut through the bars of iron.

    3And I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that I, the LORD, who calls you by your name, am the God of Israel.

  • Isa 51:16
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    16And I have put my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, 'You are my people.'

  • Jer 1:16
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    16And I will utter My judgments against them concerning all their wickedness, who have forsaken Me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

  • Isa 14:24
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    24The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so it will come to pass; and as I have purposed, so it will stand:

  • Isa 45:12
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    12I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even My hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host I have commanded.

  • Prov 8:22-23
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    22The LORD possessed me at the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

    23I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth was.

  • Isa 52:6
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    6Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks: behold, it is I.

  • Jer 33:3
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    3Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.

  • Ezek 38:17
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    17Thus says the Lord GOD; Are you he of whom I have spoken in former times by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days many years that I would bring you against them?

  • Jer 18:7
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    7At any moment I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

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    25For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall no longer be postponed: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, says the Lord GOD.

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    8But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

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    6Then the LORD said to me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear the words of this covenant, and do them.

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    10And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not spoken in vain that I would do this evil to them.

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    4Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,