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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. Isaiah 48:9-22, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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