Verse 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.’

Referenced Verses

• Isa 48:3 : 3 “I announced events beforehand, I issued the decrees and made the predictions; suddenly I acted and they came to pass.
• Jer 44:15-18 : 15 Then all the men who were aware that their wives were sacrificing to other gods, as well as all their wives, answered Jeremiah. There was a great crowd of them representing all the people who lived in northern and southern Egypt. They answered, 16 “We will not listen to what you claim the LORD has spoken to us! 17 Instead we will do everything we vowed we would do. We will sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the goddess called the Queen of Heaven just as we and our ancestors, our kings, and our leaders previously did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, were well-off, and had no troubles. 18 But ever since we stopped sacrificing and pouring out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven, we have been in great need. Our people have died in wars or of starvation.”
• Luke 1:70 : 70 as he spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from long ago,
• Acts 15:18 : 18 known from long ago.
• Isa 42:8-9 : 8 The Lord Intervenes I am the LORD! That is my name! I will not share my glory with anyone else, or the praise due me with idols. 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 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!
• 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,’