Isaiah 48:7
They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when you heardest them not; lest you shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
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5 I have even from the beginning declared to you; before it came to pass I shewed you: lest you shouldest say, Mine idol has done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, has commanded them.
6 you hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare ? I have shewed you new things from this time, even hidden things, and you didst not know them.
7 They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when you heardest them not; lest you shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
8 yes, you heardest not; yes, you knewest not; yes, from that time your ear was not opened: for I knew that you wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
9 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for you, that I cut you not off.