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~{Is 48:5}~
4 Because I knew that thou art obstinate,
and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
5 I have even from the beginning declared it to thee;
before it came to pass I shewed it thee:
lest thou shouldest say,
Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image,
and my molten image, hath commanded them.
6 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.
7 They are created now, and not from the beginning;
even before the day when thou heardest them not;
lest thou shouldest say,
Behold, I knew them.
8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not;
yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened:
for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously,
and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
The King James Version, (Cambridge: Cambridge) 1769.

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