Isaiah 48:6
in Isaiah 48You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not acknowledge them? From now on I will tell you of new things, hidden things unknown to you.
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ASV
Thou hast heard it; behold all this; and ye, will ye not declare it? I have showed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, which thou hast not known.
KJV
Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.
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This verse in Isaiah 48
Commentary
10 notes on this verseThou hast heard, see all this “Thou didst hear it beforehand; behold, the whole is accomplished” - For חזה chazeh, see, a MS. has הזה hazzeh, this; thou hast heard the whole of this: the Syriac has וחזית vechazith, “thou hast heard, and thou hast seen, the whole.” Perhaps it should be הנה hinneh, behold. In order to express the full sense, I have rendered it somewhat paraphrastically.
This site's exposition
You have heard these things
on Isaiah 48:6-8
“You have heard these things” presses the house to testify, and the LORD adds new evidence, “hidden things unknown to you”. Verse 7 fixes the timing, “They are created now”, which removes any excuse. Verse 8 traces the stubbornness to birth, “you have been called a rebel from birth”.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
(Verse 3, 4 and following) I announced the former things long ago, they went out from my mouth, and I made them heard. Suddenly I acted, and they came to pass. For I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your forehead is bronze. I foretold them to you long ago, before they came to pass I announced them to you, lest you should say, 'My idols did these things, and my carved images and molded idols commanded them.' You have heard; see all this. And will you not declare it?
These words would not be of any help to you if you had not been already warned. Nevertheless, dwelling in my loving-kindness, I still bear witness and distinguish you from those assembled in Babylon and the Chaldeans about to attack you. Open your eyes! As you see the foretold destruction taking hold when the warriors come from Babylon, you will know with understanding that God has told you these things would happen and you can call on his help when the predicted end strikes. These things are available to you from my words.
The Medieval Church1 voice
He sets out also the manifestation of what was foretold: the things which you have heard, foretold to you by me, see, them fulfilled: as we have heard, so have we seen (Ps 48:8). 887. Second, he assigns the reason for the hiding of other …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Thou hast heard the prophecy; see the accomplishment of it, and observe whether the word and works of God do not exactly agree; and will you not declare it, that as you have heard so you have seen? Will you not own that the Lord is the true God, the only true God, that he has the knowledge and power which no creature has and which none of the gods of the nations can pretend to?
): I have shown thee new things from this time. Besides the general view given from the beginning of God's proceedings with them, he showed them new things by the prophets of their own day, and created them. They were hidden things, which they could not otherwise know, as the prophecy concerning Cyrus and the exact time of their release out of Babylon.
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3 more voices on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Thou hast heard, see all this: and will ye not declare it?.... You have heard of all these things, how they were foretold before they were; how they came to pass exactly as they were predicted; now look over these prophecies, and compare them with the events; see the exact completion of them; and when you have so done, can you be so stouthearted and impudent as to deny them, or not own and confess them?
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Thou canst testify the prediction was uttered long before the fulfilment: "see all this," namely, that the event answers to the prophecy. declare--make the fact known as a proof that Jehovah alone is God (Isa 44:8). new things--namely, the deliverance from Babylon by Cyrus, new in contradistinction from former predictions that had been fulfilled (Isa 42:9;
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A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Thou hast heard - You are witnesses that the prediction was uttered long before it was fulfilled. See all this - Behold how it is all fulfilled. Bear witness that the event is as it was predicted. And will ye not declare it? - Will you not bear witness to the entire fulfillment of the prophecy? God appeals to them as qualified to testify that what he had declared had come to pass, and calls on them to make this known as a demonstration that he alone was God (see the notes at Isa 44:8). I have showed thee new things from this time - From this time I make known a thing which has not before occurred, that you may have a similar demonstration that Yahweh is God. The ‘new thing’ here referred to, is, doubtless, the prediction of the deliverance from the captivity at Babylon - a new thing, in contradistinction from those which had been before predicted, and which were already fulfilled (see the notes at Isa 42:9; Isa 43:19). Even hidden things - Events which are so concealed that they could not be conjectured by any political sagacity, or by any contemplation of mere natural causes. They are, as it were, laid up in dark treasurehouses (compare Isa 45:3), and they can be known only by him to whom ‘the darkness shineth as the day,’ and to whom the night and the day are both alike Psa 139:12.
The words behind it
12 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שָׁמַ֤עְתָּֽ | shama'ta | you have heard | H8085 → | 1159 times |
| חֲזֵה֙ | chazeh | look at | H2372 → | 55 times |
| כֻּלָּ֔הּ | kulah | all of it | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| וְאַתֶּ֖ם | veatem | and you | H859 → | 1094 times |
| הֲל֣וֹא | halo' | ¿ not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תַגִּ֑ידוּ | tagidu | will you tell | H5046 → | 370 times |
| הִשְׁמַעְתִּ֤יךָ | hishma'tikha | I will proclaim to you | H8085 → | 1159 times |
| חֲדָשׁוֹת֙ | chadashot | new [things] | H2319 → | 53 times |
| מֵעַ֔תָּה | meatah | from now | H6258 → | 433 times |
| וּנְצֻר֖וֹת | unetzurot | and secret [things] | H5341 → | 63 times |
| וְלֹ֥א | velo' | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| יְדַעְתָּֽם׃ | yeda'tam | you have known them | H3045 → | 945 times |
שָׁמַ֤עְתָּֽyou have heard
shama'taH8085 →1159 times
חֲזֵה֙look at
chazehH2372 →55 times
כֻּלָּ֔הּall of it
kulahH3605 →5413 times
וְאַתֶּ֖םand you
veatemH859 →1094 times
הֲל֣וֹא¿ not
halo'H3808 →5168 times
תַגִּ֑ידוּwill you tell
tagiduH5046 →370 times
הִשְׁמַעְתִּ֤יךָI will proclaim to you
hishma'tikhaH8085 →1159 times
חֲדָשׁוֹת֙new [things]
chadashotH2319 →53 times
מֵעַ֔תָּהfrom now
meatahH6258 →433 times
וּנְצֻר֖וֹתand secret [things]
unetzurotH5341 →63 times
וְלֹ֥אand not
velo'H3808 →5168 times
יְדַעְתָּֽם׃you have known them
yeda'tamH3045 →945 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 43:19Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
it leads to
- Isaiah 42:9
Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”
- 2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
- Revelation 21:5
And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.”
- Isaiah 41:18
I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.
- Luke 3:4–5
as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.
- Isaiah 42:9
Through
Isaiah 42:9Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”
it leads to
- Isaiah 43:19
Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
- Isaiah 46:9–10
Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me.
- Isaiah 43:19
Through
Revelation 4:1After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, “Come up here, and I will show…
it leads to
- Revelation 11:12
And the witnesses heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Come up here.” And they went up to heaven in a cloud as their enemies watched them.
- Revelation 11:12
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Eusebius of Caesarea, COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 2:33; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Isaiah.