Isaiah 44:7

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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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  • Isa 41:26 : 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!
  • Isa 41:22 : 22 “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!
  • Gen 17:7-8 : 7 I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you. 8 I will give the whole land of Canaan– the land where you are now residing– to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God.”
  • Deut 32:8 : 8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the heavenly assembly.
  • Isa 41:4 : 4 Who acts and carries out decrees? Who summons the successive generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, am present at the very beginning, and at the very end– I am the one.
  • Isa 43:9 : 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.’
  • Isa 43:12 : 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 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 46:9-9 : 9 Remember what I accomplished in antiquity! Truly I am God, I have no peer; I am God, and there is none like me, 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 48:3-8 : 3 “I announced events beforehand, I issued the decrees and made the predictions; suddenly I acted and they came to pass. 4 I did this because I know how stubborn you are. Your neck muscles are like iron and your forehead like bronze. 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.’ 8 You did not hear, you do not know, you were not told beforehand. For I know that you are very deceitful; you were labeled a rebel from birth.
  • Acts 17:26 : 26 From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,

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  • Isa 45:21-22
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    21Tell 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.

    22Turn to me so you can be delivered, all you who live in the earth’s remote regions! For I am God, and I have no peer.

  • Isa 44:6
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    6The Absurdity of Idolatry This is what the LORD, Israel’s king, says, their protector, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies:“I am the first and I am the last, there is no God but me.

  • Isa 44:8
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    8Don’t panic! Don’t be afraid! Did I not tell you beforehand and decree it? You are my witnesses! Is there any God but me? There is no other sheltering rock; I know of none.

  • Isa 41:4
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    4Who acts and carries out decrees? Who summons the successive generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, am present at the very beginning, and at the very end– I am the one.

  • Isa 41:26-27
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    26Who 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!

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

  • Isa 43:7-13
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    7everyone who belongs to me, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed– yes, whom I made!

    8The 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!

    9All 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.’

    10You 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.

    11I, I am the LORD, and there is no deliverer besides me.

    12I decreed and delivered and proclaimed, and there was no other god among you. You are my witnesses,” says the LORD,“that I am God.

    13From this day forward I am he; no one can deliver from my power; I will act, and who can prevent it?”

  • Isa 46:9-11
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    9Remember what I accomplished in antiquity! Truly I am God, I have no peer; I am God, and there is none like me,

    10who 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,’

    11who summons an eagle from the east, from a distant land, one who carries out my plan. Yes, I have decreed, yes, I will bring it to pass; I have formulated a plan, yes, I will carry it out.

  • Isa 48:12-13
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    12Listen to me, O Jacob, Israel, whom I summoned! I am the one; I am present at the very beginning and at the very end.

    13Yes, my hand founded the earth; my right hand spread out the sky. I summon them; they stand together.

  • Isa 48:3
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    3“I announced events beforehand, I issued the decrees and made the predictions; suddenly I acted and they came to pass.

  • Isa 42:9
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    9Look, 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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    5I 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.’

    6You 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.

    7Now 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.’

  • Isa 48:15-16
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    15I, I have spoken– yes, I have summoned him; I lead him and he will succeed.

    16Approach me! Listen to this! From the very first I have not spoken in secret; when it happens, I am there.” So now, the Sovereign LORD has sent me, accompanied by his Spirit.

  • Isa 41:21-23
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    21The Lord Challenges the Pagan Gods“Present your argument,” says the LORD.“Produce your evidence,” says Jacob’s king.

    22“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!

    23Predict 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 45:5-6
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    5I am the LORD, I have no peer, there is no God but me. I arm you for battle, even though you do not recognize me.

    6I do this so people will recognize from east to west that there is no God but me; I am the LORD, I have no peer.

  • Isa 44:24
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    24The Lord Empowers Cyrus This is what the LORD, your protector, says, the one who formed you in the womb:“I am the LORD, who made everything, who alone stretched out the sky, who fashioned the earth all by myself,

  • Isa 46:5
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    5To whom can you compare and liken me? Tell me whom you think I resemble, so we can be compared!

  • Isa 45:11-12
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    11This 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!

    12I made the earth; I created the people who live on it. It was me– my hands stretched out the sky. I give orders to all the heavenly lights.

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    44“A lion coming up from the thick undergrowth along the Jordan scatters the sheep in the pastureland around it. So too I will chase the Babylonians off of their land. Then I will appoint over it whomever I choose. For there is no one like me. There is no one who can call me to account. There is no ruler that can stand up against me.

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    25“To whom can you compare me? Whom do I resemble?” says the Holy One.

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    6For this reason my people will know my name, for this reason they will know at that time that I am the one who says,‘Here I am.’”

  • Isa 37:26
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    26Certainly you must have heard! Long ago I worked it out, in ancient times I planned it, and now I am bringing it to pass. The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins.

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    25Certainly you must have heard! Long ago I worked it out. In ancient times I planned it; and now I am bringing it to pass. The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins.

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    18For this is what the LORD says, the one who created the sky– he is the true God, the one who formed the earth and made it; he established it, he did not create it without order, he formed it to be inhabited–“I am the LORD, I have no peer.

  • Jer 33:2-3
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    2“I, the LORD, do these things. I, the LORD, form the plan to bring them about. I am known as the LORD. I say to you,

    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.’

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

  • Isa 43:21
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    21the people whom I formed for myself, so they might praise me.”

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    4Look, I made him a witness to nations, a ruler and commander of nations.”

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    13You who are far away, listen to what I have done! You who are close by, recognize my strength!”

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    18To whom can you compare God? To what image can you liken him?

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    16Zion’s Time to Celebrate I commission you as my spokesman; I cover you with the palm of my hand, to establish the sky and to found the earth, to say to Zion,‘You are my people.’”

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    27Indeed, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has a plan, and who can possibly frustrate it? His hand is ready to strike, and who can possibly stop it?