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Isaiah

ESV

Chapter 48

¹Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and who came from the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth or righteously. ²For they call themselves after the holy city and lean on the God of Israel; the LORD of hosts is his name. ³“The former things I declared of old; they went out from my mouth, and I made them known; then suddenly I did them, and they came to pass. ⁴Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead bronze, ⁵I declared them to you from of old, before they came to pass I announced them to you, lest you should say, ‘My idol did them, my carved image and my metal image commanded them.’ ⁶“You have heard; now see all this; and will you not declare it? From this time forth I announce to you new things, hidden things that you have not known. ⁷They are created now, not long ago; before today you have never heard of them, lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’ ⁸You have never heard, you have never known, from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and that from birth you were called a rebel. ⁹“For my name’s sake I defer my anger; for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off. ¹⁰Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction. ¹¹For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another. ¹²“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called! I am He; I am the first, and I am the last. ¹³My hand laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand forth together. ¹⁴“Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear! Who among them has declared these things? The LORD loves him; he shall perform his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be against the Chaldeans. ¹⁵I, even I, have spoken and called him; I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way. ¹⁶Draw near to me and hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it came to be I have been there. And now the Lord GOD has sent me, and his Spirit.” ¹⁷Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go. ¹⁸Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea; ¹⁹your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never have been cut off or destroyed from before me.” ²⁰Go out from Babylon, flee from Chaldea, declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it, send it out to the end of the earth; say, “The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!” ²¹They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he split the rock and the water gushed out. ²²“There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”