Isa 48
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Hear you this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and are come
forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of YHWH, and make mention
of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness
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(for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel;
YHWH of hosts is his name):
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I have declared the former things from of old; yea, they went forth out of my mouth,
and I showed them: suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.
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Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow
brass;
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therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I showed it
you; lest you should say, Mine idol has done them, and my graven image, and my molten
image, has commanded them.
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You have heard it; behold all this; and you, will you not declare it? I have showed
you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.
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They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day you heard them not;
lest you should say, Behold, I knew them.
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Yea, you heard not; yea, you knew not; yea, from of old your ear was not opened: for
I knew that you did deal very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the
womb.
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For my name`s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for you,
that I cut you not off.
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Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of
affliction.
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For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do it; for how should [my name] be profaned?
and my glory will I not give to another.
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Hearken to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the
last.
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Yea, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out
the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.
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Assemble yourselves, all you, and hear; who among them has declared these things?
He whom YHWH loves shall perform his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on]
the Chaldeans.
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I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him; I have brought him, and he shall make
his way prosperous.
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Come you near to me, hear you this; from the beginning I have not spoken in secret;
from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord YHWH has sent me, and his
Spirit.
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Thus says YHWH, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am YHWH your God, who teaches
you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
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Oh that you had hearkened to my commandments! then had your peace been as a river,
and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:
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your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your bowels like the grains
thereof: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.
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Go you forth from Babylon, flee you from the Chaldeans; with a voice of singing declare
you, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth: say you, YHWH has redeemed
his servant Jacob.
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And 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.
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There is no peace, says YHWH, to the wicked.