Isaiah 48:6

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“You 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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BSBPD

“You 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.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Thou hast heard, see the whole of it, And ye, do ye not declare? I have caused thee to hear new things from this time, And things reserved that ye knew not.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 48:6 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Psalms 40:9I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; behold, I do not seal my lips, as You, O LORD, do know.
  2. Psalms 71:15My mouth will declare Your righteousness and Your salvation all day long, though I cannot know their full measure.
  3. Psalms 78:3that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
  4. Psalms 107:43Let him who is wise pay heed to these things and consider the loving devotion of the LORD.
  5. Psalms 119:13With my lips I proclaim all the judgments of Your mouth.
  6. Psalms 145:4One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
  7. Isaiah 21:10O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel.
  8. Isaiah 42:8I am the LORD; that is My name! I will not yield My glory to another or My praise to idols.
  9. Isaiah 42:9Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”
  10. Isaiah 42:20Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”
  11. Isaiah 43:8Bring out a people who have eyes but are blind, and who have ears but are deaf.
  12. 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.
  13. Jeremiah 2:31You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?
  14. Jeremiah 50:2“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’
  15. Daniel 12:8I heard, but I did not understand. So I asked, “My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?”
  16. Amos 3:6If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
  17. Micah 6:9The voice of the LORD calls out to the city (and it is sound wisdom to fear Your name): “Heed the rod and the One who ordained it.
  18. Matthew 10:27What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.
  19. John 15:15No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.
  20. Acts 1:8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
  21. Romans 16:25Now to Him who is able to strengthen you by my gospel and by the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery concealed for ages past
  22. 1 Corinthians 2:9Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”
  23. 1 Peter 1:10Concerning this salvation, the prophets who foretold the grace to come to you searched and investigated carefully,
  24. Revelation 1:19Therefore write down the things you have seen, and the things that are, and the things that will happen after this.

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