Isaiah 48:2-3

Israel Refined for God's Glory

2 For they call themselves after the holy city,
g and stay themselves on the God of Israel;
the Lord of hosts is his name.

3 "The former things h I declared of old;
they went out from my mouth, and I announced them;
then suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.

  1. Cross References
    Micah 3:11
    Its heads give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money; yet they lean on the Lord and say, "Is not the Lord in the midst of us? No disaster shall come upon us.
  2. Cross References
    Isaiah 41:26
    Who declared it from the beginning, that we might know, and beforehand, that we might say, "He is right"? There was none who declared it, none who proclaimed, none who heard your words.
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