Isaiah 48:4-8

4I did it because I know what you are like. You refuse to obey me. You do not want to change the way that you live. Your neck is like iron and it will not bend! Your head is as hard as bronze!

5So I told you about these things a long time ago. Before they happened, I told you about them. Then you could not say, “My idol did them. Yes, my wooden image and my idol made of metal decided that these things would happen.”

6You heard what I said would happen, and now you have seen it happen. Agree that what I say is true! Now I will tell you about new things that will happen. They are secret things that you do not yet know about.

7They are not things that started long ago. I am causing them to happen now. You did not hear about them before today. So you cannot say, “Yes, I already knew about them.”

8You have not heard about them before. You know nothing about them. From long ago you refused to listen to me. I know that you are never honest. Since you first became a nation, you have refused to obey me.