“I declared them to you
From long ago.
Before they came to pass.
I announced them to you.
Thus you would not say.
‘My idol did them.
My carved image commanded them.
My cast image commanded them.’
You have heard!
Now see all this!
Will you not declare it?”
Once again, Second Isaiah has Yahweh defend himself against false idols. This must have been quite a problem. Yahweh had made this known a long time before it happened. Thus they could not say that it was their idols, the carved and cast images that had commanded and done this. Yahweh was clear. They had heard and saw all this, but they just did not understand what was happening. Now they have to declare it so.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 