以賽亞書 48：4-8
現代文譯本（2019）
4 我知道你剛愎自用，
頑強如鐵，堅硬如銅。
5 我早就預言你的將來，
在事情發生前已經宣布，
使你不能說這些事出於假神，
出於你自己鑄造的偶像。
6 我所預言的事都發生了；
你得承認我的預言正確。
現在我要告訴你將來的新事，
是你以往不知道的隱藏的事。
7 我到現在才使這些事發生；
這些事你從來沒有聽過；
因此你不能說，你早已知道了。
8 不錯，你沒有聽過；
不錯，你並不知道；
不錯，你的耳朵關閉著。
我早就知道你的詭詐；
你一出母胎就是叛徒。
ESV
4 Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,
5 I declared them to you from of old, before they came to pass I announced them to you, lest you should say, ‘My idol did them, my carved image and my metal image commanded them.’
6 “You have heard; now see all this; and will you not declare it? From this time forth I announce to you new things, hidden things that you have not known.
7 They are created now, not long ago; before today you have never heard of them, lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
8 You have never heard, you have never known, from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and that from before birth you were called a rebel.
《二十一世紀聖經新譯》
這樣的虛偽，比四十章27節的不信和四十三章22節的厭煩，更加不如；這卻是四十二章18-20節指出之罪預期的結果。從前曾以神的命定指斥外邦（參四十一21-24），現今卻用以指斥神的子民，這些頑梗的不信者（3-8節）。請參導論。
