Isaiah 48:2-4

Good News Translation

² And yet you are proud to say
    that you are citizens of the holy city
    and that you depend on Israel's God,
    whose name is the Lord Almighty.

“Long ago I predicted what would take place;
    then suddenly I made it happen.
⁴ I knew that you would prove to be stubborn,
    as rigid as iron and unyielding as bronze.