1Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.
2For they say that they are of the holy town, and put their faith in the God of Israel: the Lord of armies is his name.
3I gave word in the past of the things which came about; they came from my mouth, and I made them clear: suddenly I did them, and they came about.
4Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;
5For this reason I made it clear to you in the past, before it came I gave you word of it: for fear that you might say, My god did these things, and my pictured and metal images made them come about.
6All this has come to your ears and you have seen it; will you not give witness to it? I am now making clear new things, even secret things, of which you had no knowledge.
7They have only now been effected, and not in the past: and before this day they had not come to your ears; for fear that you might say, I had knowledge of them.
