פירוש על ישעיהו 48:7

Now they have been created and not from then are they.

נבראו They are decreed.⁵A. V., They are created. Comp. I. E. on 40:28, note 61.

and before the day that they take place I let you hear of them.

And before the day, on which I told you. ולא שמעתם Thou heardest them not.⁶I. E. here explains the words Yea, thou hast not heard, etc., as a repetition of Thou heardest them not of the preceding verse for the sake of The ו introduces the principal sentence, as فَ in Arabic; comp. אברהם ביום השלישי וישא when the third day came, Abraham lifted up (Gen. 22:4)

and you did not hear them until this day. The words, “and before the day,” refer back to “I let you hear,” as stated above.