Jesaja 48:5

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling

Ik heb het u lang tevoren verkondigd, en heb het u laten zeggen, eer het gekomen is, opdat gij niet zoudt zeggen: Mijn afgod heeft het gedaan, en mijn gesneden beeld en afgod heeft het bevolen.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
daarom heb ik het u voorlang meegedeeld, het u doen horen eer het kwam; opdat gij niet zoudt zeggen: Mijn beeld deed het; mijn gesneden of mijn gegoten beeld heeft het verordend.

Staten Vertaling
Daarom heb Ik het u van toen af verkondigd, eer dat het kwam, heb Ik het u doen horen; opdat gij niet misschien zoudt zeggen: Mijn afgod heeft die dingen gedaan, of mijn gesneden beeld, of mijn gegoten beeld heeft ze bevolen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

even: Isaiah 48:3, Isaiah 44:7, Isaiah 46:10, Luke 1:70, Acts 15:18

Mine idol: Isaiah 42:8, Isaiah 42:9, Jeremiah 44:17, Jeremiah 44:18

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:1 - Ye shall 1 Kings 13:2 - Josiah by name Job 32:13 - Lest Isaiah 43:9 - who among Isaiah 44:8 - have declared Isaiah 48:11 - I will not Hosea 5:9 - have Matthew 24:25 - General John 13:19 - I tell

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I have even from the beginning declared it to thee,.... From the beginning of their being a people, even before they were formed into a body politic; yea, from the original of them, from the time of Abraham their ancestor, as before observed:

before it came to pass I showed it thee; some hundreds of years before; first to Abraham, then to Isaac, then to Jacob, then to Joseph, and then to Moses, and by him to the children of Israel:

lest thou shouldest say, mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them; or my libation or fusion of wine, oil, or blood, by which, as by other things, they made conjectures of what was to come to pass; so Gussetius b interprets the last word; lest they should ascribe their deliverance out of Egypt to the idols they made and worshipped, being a people prone to idolatry; as they did when they made a golden calf, and danced about it, Exodus 32:4. This the Lord knew before hand, and therefore to prevent this stupidity, or convince them of it, he foretold what should come to pass, which their idols were never able to do.

b Ebr. Comment. p. 517.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have even from the beginning declared it to thee - He had foretold future events, so that they had abundant demonstration thai he was the true God, and so that they could not be under a mistake in regard to the source of their deliverances from danger.

Mine idol hath done them - The idols and molten images had not foretold these events and when they came to pass, it could not, therefore, be pretended that they had been produced by idols. By predicting them, Yahweh kept up the proof that he was the true God, and demonstrated that he alone was worthy of their confidence and regard.