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Good News Translation
Isaiah 48:7
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They have been created now, and not long ago;you have not heard of them before today,so you could not claim, ‘I already knew them!’
They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day you didn't hear them; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them.
They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
They are created now, not long ago; before today you have never heard of them, lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.'
"They are created now and not long ago; And before today you have not heard them, So that you will not say, 'Behold, I knew them.'
These things are happening now, not long ago; you have not heard about them before today. So you cannot say, ‘We already knew about that.'
"They are created now [called into being by the prophetic word] and not long ago; And before today you have not heard of them, So that you will not say, 'Oh yes! I knew them.'
They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day you didn't hear them; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them.
They are created now, and not of olde, and euen before this thou heardest them not, lest thou shouldest say, Beholde, I knewe them.
They are created now and not long ago;And before today you have not heard them,Lest you say, ‘Behold, I knew them.'
They are created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today, so you cannot claim, 'I already knew them!'
Today I am doing something new, something you cannot say you have heard before.
created now, not long ago; before today, you did not hear them: so you can't say, ‘I already know about them.'
they are created now, and not long ago; and before this day thou hast not heard them, lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
This is something that is happening now, not long ago. You have not heard about it before today. So you cannot say, ‘We already knew that.'
They are created now, and not of old; even before the day when you did not hear of them, lest you should say, Behold, I knew them.
Now they are created, and not from of old, and before today, and you have not heard them so that you could not say, "Look! I knew them."
They are created now, and not from then; even before today, but you did not hear them; lest you should say, See, I knew them.
And some done now not of olde time, wherof thou neuer herdest, before they were brought to passe: that thou canst not saye: I knewe of them.
They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
They have only now been effected, and not in the past: and before this day they had not come to your ears; for fear that you might say, I had knowledge of them.
They are created now, and not from of old, and before this day thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say: 'Behold, I knew them.'
They are created now, and not from the beginning, euen before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
And some done of olde tyme, wherof thou neuer heardest before they were brought to passe, that thou canst not say, beholde I knewe of them.
Now they come to pass, and not formerly: and thou heardest not of them in former days: say not thou, Yea, I know them.
They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
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They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day you did not hear them; or else you will say, Look, I knew them.
They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardst them not; lest thou shouldst say, Behold, I knew them.
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.'
They are created now and not from the beginning; And before this day you have not heard them, Lest you should say, "Of course I knew them.'
They are brand new, not things from the past. So you cannot say, ‘We knew that all the time!'
They are made now, not long ago. Before today you have never heard of them, or you would say, ‘See, I knew them.'
They are created now, not long ago; before today you have never heard of them, so that you could not say, "I already knew them."
Now, are they created, and not in time past, And, before to-day, thou hadst not heard of them, - Lest thou shouldest say, Lo! I knew them!
They are created now, and not of old: and before the day, when thou heardest them not, lest thou shouldst say: Behold I knew them.
They are created now, not long ago; before today you have never heard of them, lest you should say, 'Behold, I knew them.'
Now they have been produced and not from that time, Yea, before the day, and thou hast not heard them, Lest thou say, `Lo, I have known them.'
"They are created now and not long ago; And before today you have not heard them, So that you will not say, 'Behold, I knew them.'
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Reciprocal: Job 32:13 - Lest Isaiah 45:20 - they Isaiah 49:7 - the Redeemer 1 Corinthians 2:7 - even
Cross-References
Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebecca, the daughter of Bethuel (an Aramean from Mesopotamia) and sister of Laban.
When Jacob returned from Mesopotamia, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
May the angel, who has rescued me from all harm, bless them! May my name and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac live on through these boys! May they have many children, many descendants!"
His father refused, saying, "I know, son, I know. Manasseh's descendants will also become a great people. But his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will become great nations."
There was a man named Elkanah, from the tribe of Ephraim, who lived in the town of Ramah in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham and grandson of Elihu, and belonged to the family of Tohu, a part of the clan of Zuph.
When you leave me today, you will meet two men near Rachel's tomb at Zelzah in the territory of Benjamin. They will tell you that the donkeys you were looking for have been found, so that your father isn't worried any more about them but about you, and he keeps asking, ‘What shall I do about my son?'
David was the son of Jesse, who was an Ephrathite from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons, and at the time Saul was king, he was already a very old man.
The Lord says, "Bethlehem Ephrathah, you are one of the smallest towns in Judah, but out of you I will bring a ruler for Israel, whose family line goes back to ancient times."
"A sound is heard in Ramah, the sound of bitter weeping. Rachel is crying for her children; she refuses to be comforted, for they are dead."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
They are created now, and not from the beginning,.... Not that they were now done or brought into being, for as yet Cyrus was not born; though the raising of him up, and holding his right hand, and his executing the counsel of God, are spoken of as if they were already done, because of the certainty of them, Isaiah 45:1. Aben Ezra interprets "created" by "decreed"; though these were not now decreed by God; for no new decrees are made by him; but those which were made by him of old were now revealed and made manifest by prophecy, which is the sense of the phrase; so Kimchi observes,
"the time when they went out of the mouth of God is the time of their creation.''
Thus in like manner the incarnation of Christ, his sufferings and death, and salvation by him, things decreed from eternity, are spoken of in this prophecy as if actually done, because of the clear manifestation and certainty of them:
even before the day when thou heardest them not; they were in the breast of God, kept and reserved in his mind, and therefore are before called hidden things, before the Israelites heard anything of them; as were the things respecting Christ, and salvation by him; which were not only in God, who created all things by Christ, but were revealed before the Israelites had any knowledge of them, even to Adam and Eve, immediately after their fall; and were spoken of by all the holy prophets from the beginning of the world:
lest thou shouldest say, behold, I knew them; lest they should ascribe their present knowledge of them to their own sagacity and penetration; as if they were not obliged to a divine revelation, but of themselves had got the secret, and became acquainted with these things.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
They are created now - The Septuagint renders this, ÎÏ Íν γιÌνεÏαι nun ginetai - âDone now;â and many expositors interpret it in the sense that they are now brought into light, as if they were created. Aben Ezra renders it, âThey are decreed and determined by me.â Rosenmuller supposes that it refers to the revelation, or making known those things. Lowth renders it, âThey are produced now, and not of old.â Noyes, âIt is revealed now, and not long ago.â But the sense is probably this: God is saying that they did not foresee them, nor were they able to conjecture them by the contemplation of any natural causes. There were no natural causes in operation at the time the predictions were made, respecting the destruction of Babylon, by which it could be conjectured that that event would take place; and when the event occurred, it was as if it had been created anew. It was the result of Almighty power and energy, and was to be traced to him alone. The sense is, that it could no more be predicted, at the time when the prophecy was uttered, from the operation of any natural causes, than an act of creation could be predicted, which depended on the exercise of the divine will alone. It was a case which God only could understand, in the same way as he alone could understand the purposes and the time of his own act of creating the world.
And not from the beginning - The events have not been so formed from the beginning that they could be predicted by the operation of natural causes, and by political sagacity.
Even before the day when thou heardest them not - The sense of this probably, âand before this day thou hast not heard of them;â that is, these predictions pertain to new events, and are not to be found in antecedent prophecies. The prophet did not speak now of the deliverance from Egypt, and of the blessings of the promised land, which had constituted the burden of many of the former prophecies, but he spoke of a new thing; of the deliverance from Babylon, and of events which they could by no natural sagacity anticipate, so that they could claim that they knew them.
Lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them - The taking of Babylon by Cyrus, and the deliverance of the exiles from their bondage, are events which can be foreseen only by God. Yet the prophet says that he had declared these events, which thus lay entirely beyond the power of human conjecture, long before they occurred, so that they could not possibly pretend that they knew them by any natural sagacity, or that an idol had effected this.
