Isaiah 48
48"Hear this, O house of Jacob, Who are called by the name of Israel, And have come forth from the wellsprings of Judah; Who swear by the name of the LORD, And make mention of the God of Israel, But not in truth or in righteousness;H8085H1004H3290H7121H8034H3478H3318H4325H3063H7650H8034H3068H2142H430H3478H571H66662For they call themselves after the holy city, And lean on the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is His name:H7121H6944H5892H5564H430H3478H3068H6635H80343"I have declared the former things from the beginning; They went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to hear it. Suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.H5046H7223H227H3318H6310H8085H6213H6597H9354Because I knew that you were obstinate, And your neck was an iron sinew, And your brow bronze,H1847H7186H6203H1270H1517H4696H51545Even from the beginning I have declared it to you; Before it came to pass I proclaimed it to you, Lest you should say, 'My idol has done them, And my carved image and my molded image Have commanded them.'H227H5046H935H8085H559H6090H6213H6459H5262H66806"You have heard; See all this. And will you not declare it? I have made you hear new things from this time, Even hidden things, and you did not know them.H8085H2372H5046H8085H2319H6258H5341H30457They are created now and not from the beginning; And before this day you have not heard them, Lest you should say, 'Of course I knew them.'H1254H6440H3117H8085H559H30458Surely you did not hear, Surely you did not know; Surely from long ago your ear was not opened. For I knew that you would deal very treacherously, And were called a transgressor from the womb.H8085H3045H241H6605H3045H898H898H7121H6586H9909"For My name's sake I will defer My anger, And for My praise I will restrain it from you, So that I do not cut you off.H8034H748H639H8416H2413H377210Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.H6884H3701H977H3564H604011For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it; For how should My name be profaned? And I will not give My glory to another.H6213H2490H5414H3519H31212"Listen to Me, O Jacob, And Israel, My called: I am He, I am the First, I am also the Last.H8085H3290H3478H7121H7223H31413Indeed My hand has laid the foundation of the earth, And My right hand has stretched out the heavens; When I call to them, They stand up together.H3027H3245H776H3225H2946H8064H7121H5975H316214"All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear! Who among them has declared these things? The LORD loves him; He shall do His pleasure on Babylon, And His arm shall be against the Chaldeans.H6908H8085H5046H3068H157H6213H2656H894H2220H377815I, even I, have spoken; Yes, I have called him, I have brought him, and his way will prosper.H1696H7121H935H1870H674316"Come near to Me, hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; From the time that it was, I was there. And now the Lord GOD and His Spirit Have sent Me."H7126H7126H8085H1696H5643H7218H6256H136H3069H7307H797117Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: "I am the LORD your God, Who teaches you to profit, Who leads you by the way you should go.H559H3068H1350H6918H3478H3068H430H3925H3276H1869H1870H321218Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.H3863H7181H4687H7965H5104H6666H1530H322019Your descendants also would have been like the sand, And the offspring of your body like the grains of sand; His name would not have been cut off Nor destroyed from before Me."H2233H2344H6631H4578H4579H8034H3772H8045H644020Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing, Declare, proclaim this, Utter it to the end of the earth; Say, "The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!"H3318H894H1272H3778H6963H7440H5046H8085H3318H7097H776H559H3068H1350H5650H329021And they did not thirst When He led them through the deserts; He caused the waters to flow from the rock for them; He also split the rock, and the waters gushed out.H6770H3212H2723H4325H5140H6697H1234H6697H4325H210022"There is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked."H7965H559H3068H7563
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