"Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them." — Isaiah 42:9

Isaiah 42:9 · KJV

“Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.”

— Isaiah 42:9

I {am} the LORD: that {is} my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

Sing unto the LORD a new song, {and} his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. {all...: Heb. the fulness thereof}

Isaiah 42 — Context

To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, {and} them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

I {am} the LORD: that {is} my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up {their voice}, the villages {that} Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

Cross References

Isaiah 43:19

Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, {and} rivers in the desert.

Isaiah 46:9-10

Remember the former things of old: for I {am} God, and {there is} none else; {I am} God, and {there is} none like me,

John 13:19

Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am {he}. {Now: or, From henceforth}

2 Peter 1:19-21

We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

Isaiah 44:7-8

And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them.

Joshua 23:14-15

And, behold, this day I {am} going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, {and} not one thing hath failed thereof.

Joshua 21:45

There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.

1 Kings 8:15-20

And he said, Blessed {be} the LORD God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled {it}, saying,