Hear ye this, O
house of Jacob, which are called by the name of
Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of
Judah, which swear by the name of the Lord, and
make mention of the God of Israel, but not in
truth, nor in righteousness.
02 For they call themselves of the holy city, and
stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The Lord
of hosts is his name.
03 I have declared the former things from the
beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth,
and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they
came to pass.
04 Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and
thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
05 I have even from the beginning declared it to
thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee:
lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done
them, and my graven image, and my molten image,
hath commanded them.
06 Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye
declare it? I have shewed thee new things from
this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not
know them.
07 They are created now, and not from the
beginning; even before the day when thou heardest
them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew
them.
08 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not;
yea, from that time that thine ear was not
opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very
treacherously, and wast called a transgressor
from the womb.
09 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger,
and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I
cut thee not off.
10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with
silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of
affliction.
11 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake,
will I do it: for how should my name be polluted?
and I will not give my glory unto another.
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12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my
called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the
last.
13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the
earth, and my right hand hath spanned the
heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up
together.
14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which
among them hath declared these things? The Lord
hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on
Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
15 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called
him: I have brought him, and he shall make his
way prosperous.
16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not
spoken in secret from the beginning; from the
time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord
God, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
17 Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy
One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which
teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by
the way that thou shouldest go.
18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my
commandments! then had thy peace been as a river,
and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the
offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof;
his name should not have been cut off nor
destroyed from before me.
20 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the
Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye,
tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth;
say ye, The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
21 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.
22 There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the
wicked.
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