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Isaiah 48
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1Hear these [words], you⌃ house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of Juda, who swear by the name of the LordGod of Israel, making mention [of it, but] not with truth, nor with righteousness;
1Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
2maintaining also the name of the holy city, and staying themselves on the God of Israel: the Lord of hosts is his name. The former things I have already declared;
2For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The Lord of hosts is his name.
3and they that have proceeded out of my mouth, and it became well known; I wrought suddenly, and [the events] came to pass.
3I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.
4I know that you are stubborn, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your forehead brazen.
4Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
5And I told you of old what [should be] before it came upon you; I made it known to you, lest you should say, [My] idols have done [it] for me; and should say, [My] graven and molten images have commanded me.
5I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
6You⌃ have heardall this, but you⌃ have not known: yet I have made known to you the new things from henceforth, which are coming to pass, and you said not,
6Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.
7Now they come to pass, and not formerly: and you heard not of them in former days: say not you, Yes, I know them.
7They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
8You have neither known, nor understood, neither from the beginning have I opened your ears: for I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and would be called a transgressor even from the womb.
8Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
9For my own sake will I show you my wrath, and will bring before you my glorious acts, that I may not utterly destroy you.
9For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
10Behold, I have sold you, [but] not for silver; but I have rescued you from the furnace of affliction.
10Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
11For my own sake I will do [this] for you, because my name is profaned; and I will not give my glory to another.
11For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.
12Hear me, O Jacob, and Israel whom I call; I am the first, and I endure for ever.
12Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
13My hand also has founded the earth, and my right hand has fixed the sky: I will call them, and they shall stand together.
13Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
14And all shall be gathered, and shall hear: who has told them these things? Out of love to you I have fulfilled your desire on Babylon, to abolish the seed of the Chaldeans.
14All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The Lord hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
15Ihave spoken, I have called, I have brought him, and made his way prosperous.
15I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
16Draw near to me, and hear you⌃ these words; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning: when it took place, there was I, and now the Lord , [even] the Lord, and his Spirit, has sent me.
16Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
17Thus says the Lord that delivered you, the Holy One of Israel; I am your God , I have shown you how you should find the way wherein you should walk.
17Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
18And if you had listened to my commandments, [then] would your peace have been like a river, and your righteousness as a wave of the sea.
18O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
19Your seed also would have been as the sand, and the offspring of your belly as the dust of the ground: neither now shall you by any means be utterly destroyed, neither shall your name perish before me.
19Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
20Go forth of Babylon, you that flee from the Chaldeans: utter aloud a voice of joy, and let this be made known, proclaim it to the end of the earth; say you⌃, The Lord has delivered his servant Jacob.
20Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
21And if they shall thirst, he shall lead them through the desert; he shall bring forth water to them out of the rock : the rock shall be cloven, and the water shall flow forth, and my people shall drink.
21And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
22There is no joy, says the Lord, to the ungodly.
22There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.