Isaiah 48:3-5

Easy-to-Read Version

³ “Long ago I told you what would happen.
    I told you about these things.
    And suddenly I made them happen.
⁴ I did that because I knew you were stubborn.
    You were like iron that will not bend,
    with heads as hard as bronze.
⁵ So long ago I told you what would happen.
    I told you about those things long before they happened.
I did this so that you could not say,
    ‘The gods we made did this.
    Our idols, our statues, made this happen.’”