Yesaya 43:9

43:9 All nations gather together,

the peoples assemble.

Who among them announced this?

Who predicted earlier events for us? ¹ 

Let them produce their witnesses to testify they were right;

let them listen and affirm, ‘It is true.’

Yesaya 45:20

45:20 Gather together and come!

Approach together, you refugees from the nations!

Those who carry wooden idols know nothing,

those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.

Yesaya 48:16

48:16 Approach me! Listen to this!

From the very first I have not spoken in secret;

when it happens, ²  I am there.”

So now, the sovereign Lord has sent me, accompanied by his spirit. ³ 

[43:9]  ¹ tn Heb “and the former things was causing us to hear?”

[48:16]  ² tn Heb “from the time of its occurring.”

[48:16]  ³ sn The speaker here is not identified specifically, but he is probably Cyrus, the Lord’s “ally” mentioned in vv. 14-15.