See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you.”
I will give one tribe to his son so that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put my Name.
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
I foretold the former things long ago, my mouth announced them and I made them known; then suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.
Therefore I told you these things long ago; before they happened I announced them to you so that you could not say, ‘My images brought them about; my wooden image and metal god ordained them.’
You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not admit them? “From now on I will tell you of new things, of hidden things unknown to you.
“I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am who I am.
things known from long ago.
Not one of all the Lord’s good promises to Israel failed; every one was fulfilled.