Isaiah 41:22

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

“Let them produce evidence! Let them tell us what will happen! Tell us about your earlier predictive oracles, so we may examine them and see how they were fulfilled. Or decree for us some future events!

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  • Isa 45:21 : 21 Tell me! Present the evidence! Let them consult with one another! Who predicted this in the past? Who announced it beforehand? Was it not I, the LORD? I have no peer, there is no God but me, a God who vindicates and delivers; there is none but me.
  • Isa 46:10 : 10 who announces the end from the beginning and reveals beforehand what has not yet occurred, who says,‘My plan will be realized, I will accomplish what I desire,’
  • Isa 48:14 : 14 All of you, gather together and listen! Who among them announced these things? The LORD’s ally will carry out his desire against Babylon; he will exert his power against the Babylonians.
  • John 13:19 : 19 I am telling you this now, before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe that I am he.
  • John 16:14 : 14 He will glorify me, because he will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.
  • Isa 42:9 : 9 Look, my earlier predictive oracles have come to pass; now I announce new events. Before they begin to occur, I reveal them to you.”
  • Isa 43:9-9 : 9 All nations gather together, the peoples assemble. Who among them announced this? Who predicted earlier events for us? Let them produce their witnesses to testify they were right; let them listen and affirm,‘It is true.’ 10 You are my witnesses,” says the LORD,“my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may consider and believe in me, and understand that I am he. No god was formed before me, and none will outlive me. 11 I, I am the LORD, and there is no deliverer besides me. 12 I decreed and delivered and proclaimed, and there was no other god among you. You are my witnesses,” says the LORD,“that I am God.
  • Isa 44:7 : 7 Who is like me? Let him make his claim! Let him announce it and explain it to me– since I established an ancient people– let them announce future events!

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  • 23 Predict how future events will turn out, so we might know you are gods. Yes, do something good or bad, so we might be frightened and in awe.

  • Isa 41:20-21
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    20 I will do this so people will observe and recognize, so they will pay attention and understand that the LORD’s power has accomplished this, and that the Holy One of Israel has brought it into being.”

    21 The Lord Challenges the Pagan Gods“Present your argument,” says the LORD.“Produce your evidence,” says Jacob’s king.

  • Isa 43:8-9
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    8 The Lord Declares His Sovereignty Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes, those who are deaf, even though they have ears!

    9 All nations gather together, the peoples assemble. Who among them announced this? Who predicted earlier events for us? Let them produce their witnesses to testify they were right; let them listen and affirm,‘It is true.’

  • Isa 41:26-27
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    26 Who decreed this from the beginning, so we could know? Who announced it ahead of time, so we could say,‘He’s correct’? Indeed, none of them decreed it! Indeed, none of them announced it! Indeed, no one heard you say anything!

    27 I first decreed to Zion,‘Look, here’s what will happen!’ I sent a herald to Jerusalem.

  • 19 They say,“Let him hurry, let him act quickly, so we can see; let the plan of the Holy One of Israel take shape and come to pass, then we will know it!”

  • 7 Who is like me? Let him make his claim! Let him announce it and explain it to me– since I established an ancient people– let them announce future events!

  • 9 Look, my earlier predictive oracles have come to pass; now I announce new events. Before they begin to occur, I reveal them to you.”

  • Isa 48:5-7
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    73%

    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.’

    6 You have heard; now look at all the evidence! Will you not admit that what I say is true? From this point on I am announcing to you new events that are previously unrevealed and you do not know about.

    7 Now they come into being, not in the past; before today you did not hear about them, so you could not say,‘Yes, I know about them.’

  • 3 Pray that the LORD your God will tell us where we should go and what we should do.”

  • 3 “I announced events beforehand, I issued the decrees and made the predictions; suddenly I acted and they came to pass.

  • 10 who announces the end from the beginning and reveals beforehand what has not yet occurred, who says,‘My plan will be realized, I will accomplish what I desire,’

  • 21 Tell me! Present the evidence! Let them consult with one another! Who predicted this in the past? Who announced it beforehand? Was it not I, the LORD? I have no peer, there is no God but me, a God who vindicates and delivers; there is none but me.

  • 15 Look at what they are saying to me,“Where are the events in the LORD’s message? Let’s see them happen, please!”

  • 20 “Proclaim this message among the descendants of Jacob. Make it known throughout Judah.

  • 28 This is just what I told Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.

  • Isa 29:14-15
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    14 Therefore I will again do an amazing thing for these people– an absolutely extraordinary deed. Wise men will have nothing to say, the sages will have no explanations.”

    15 Those who try to hide their plans from the LORD are as good as dead, who do their work in secret and boast,“Who sees us? Who knows what we’re doing?”

  • 17 “I will explain to you; listen to me, and what I have seen, I will declare,

  • 12 But where, oh where, are your wise men? Let them tell you, let them find out what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has planned for Egypt.

  • 10 The Lord Promises Exile(But Also Restoration)“When you tell these people about all this, they will undoubtedly ask you,‘Why has the LORD threatened us with such great disaster? What wrong have we done? What sin have we done to offend the LORD our God?’

  • 1 The Lord Challenges the Nations“Listen to me in silence, you coastlands! Let the nations find renewed strength! Let them approach and then speak; let us come together for debate!

  • 23 Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen attentively in the future?

  • 10 The exiles from Judah will say,‘The LORD has brought about a great deliverance for us! Come on, let’s go and proclaim in Zion what the LORD our God has done!’

  • 10 Go west across the sea to the coasts of Cyprus and see. Send someone east to Kedar and have them look carefully. See if such a thing as this has ever happened:

  • 11 This is what the LORD says, the Holy One of Israel, the one who formed him, concerning things to come:“How dare you question me about my children! How dare you tell me what to do with the work of my own hands!

  • 40 נ(Nun) Let us carefully examine our ways, and let us return to the LORD.

  • Isa 30:10-11
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    10 They say to the visionaries,“See no more visions!” and to the seers,“Don’t relate messages to us about what is right! Tell us nice things; relate deceptive messages.

    11 Turn aside from the way; stray off the path. Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel.”

  • 18 “Don’t remember these earlier events; don’t recall these former events.

  • 8 Remember this, so you can be brave! Think about it, you rebels!

  • 3 ‘Call on me in prayer and I will answer you. I will show you great and mysterious things which you still do not know about.’

  • 5 They answered Jeremiah,“May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not do just as the LORD your God sends you to tell us to do.

  • 32 The Uniqueness of Israel’s God Indeed, ask about the distant past, starting from the day God created humankind on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether there has ever been such a great thing as this, or even a rumor of it.

  • 19 Where now are the prophets who prophesied to you that the king of Babylon would not attack you or this land?

  • 2 before God’s decree becomes reality and the day of opportunity disappears like windblown chaff, before the LORD’s raging anger overtakes you– before the day of the LORD’s angry judgment overtakes you!

  • 21 to show you true and reliable words, so that you may give accurate answers to those who sent you?

  • 6 so that the next generation, children yet to be born, might know about them. They will grow up and tell their descendants about them.

  • 4 Let us evaluate for ourselves what is right; let us come to know among ourselves what is good.

  • 5 They said to him,“Seek a divine oracle for us, so we can know if we will be successful on our mission.”

  • 4 You said,‘Pay attention, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’

  • 8 “For inquire now of the former generation, and pay attention to the findings of their ancestors;

  • 20 Then you must recall the LORD’s instructions and the prophetic testimony of what would happen. Certainly they say such things because their minds are spiritually darkened.

  • 9 then he reveals to them what they have done, and their transgressions, that they were behaving proudly.

  • 7 Certainly the Sovereign LORD does nothing without first revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.

  • 18 The Lord Reasons with His People“Listen, you deaf ones! Take notice, you blind ones!