48:3 “I announced events beforehand, ¹ 

I issued the decrees and made the predictions; ² 

suddenly I acted and they came to pass.

48:4 I did this ³  because I know how stubborn you are.

Your neck muscles are like iron

and your forehead like bronze. ⁴ 

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! ⁵ 

Will you not admit that what I say is true? ⁶ 

From this point on I am announcing to you new events

that are previously unrevealed and you do not know about. ⁷ 

48:7 Now they come into being, ⁸  not in the past;

before today you did not hear about them,

so you could not say,

‘Yes, ⁹  I know about them.’