Isaiah 48:3-22 ▼

3 From then I announced the former things, and they went forth out of my Mouth, and I caused them to be heard; I did suddenly, and they shall come.

4 From my knowledge that thou wert hard, and thy neck an iron sinew, and thy forehead of brass:

5 I will announce to thee from then; before it shall come I caused thee to hear, lest thou shalt say, My image did them; and my carved image, and my Molten image commanded them.

6 Thou heardest, seeing it all; and will ye not announce? I caused thee to hear new things from now, and hidden things, and thou knewest them not.

7 Now were they created and not from then; and before the day and thou heardest them not; lest thou shalt say, Behold, I knew them.

8 Also thou heardest not; also thou knewest not; also from then thine ear was not opened: for I knew, acting deceitfully, thou wilt act deceitfully, and it was called to thee transgressing from the womb.

9 For sake of my name I will delay Mine anger; I will be muzzled towards thee, not cutting thee of.

10 Behold, I purified thee and not with silver; I chose thee in the furnace of affliction.

11 For my sake, for my sake will I do: for how shall it be defiled? and I will not give my glory to another.

12 Hear to me, O Jacob and Israel, my calling; I am he, I the firsts also I the last.

13 Also my hand will found the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens: -I call to them, they shall stand together.

14 Assemble, all ye, and hear; who among them announced these things? Jehovah loved him: he will do his delight upon Babel, and his arm upon the Chaldeans.

15 I, I spake; also I called him: I brought him, and his way prospered.

16 Draw ye near to me, hear this; I spake not in secret in the beginning; from the time of its being, there was I: and now the Lord Jehovah sent me, and his spirit.

17 Thus said Jehovah redeeming thee, the Holy One of Israel: I Jehovah thy God teaching thee to profit, causing thee to tread in a way thou shalt go.

18 Would thou didst attend to my commands! and thy peace shall be as a river, and thy justice as the billows of the sea.

19 And thy seed shall be as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels as its bowels; his name shall not be cut off and shall not be destroyed from before me.

20 Go ye forth from Babel; flee from the Chaldeans; with the voice of shouting, announce ye; cause this to be heard; cause it to go forth, even to the extremity of the earth; say ye, Jehovah redeemed his servant Jacob.

21 And they thirsted not causing them to go in dry places: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: and he will cleave asunder the rock, and the waters will flow out.

22 No peace, said Jehovah, to the unjust.