Isaiah 48

¹ Hear this, house of Jacob, called by the name of Israel, and those who from the waters of Judah fare forth, those swearing by the name of Yahweh, and the Elohim of Israel are mentioning, not in truth, and not in righteousness, ² for from the holy city are they called, and by the Elohim of Israel are they supported. Yahweh of hosts is His name. ³ The first things hitherto I foretold, and from My mouth they fared forth. Then I am announcing them. Suddenly I do them. And they shall come to pass. ⁴ From what I know, you are obstinate, and a sinew of iron is your scruff. And your forehead is copper. ⁵ Yet I was telling it to you hitherto; ere it is coming, I announced it to you, lest you should say, "My grief fetish did them. And my carving and my molten image instructs them." ⁶ You have heard! You perceive it all! Yet you, are you not telling? I announce to you new things henceforth, and things preserved, yet you do not know them. ⁷ Now are they created, yet not hitherto. Yet before their day, then you did not hear them, lest you should say, "Behold! I knew them." ⁸ And moreover, you did not hear! Moreover, you did not know! Moreover, hitherto, I did not open your ear. For I know that you are treacherous, and a transgressor, from the belly, are you called. ⁹ On account of My name am I long-suffering in My anger, and for My praise am I repressing for you, to avoid cutting you off. ¹⁰ Behold! I refined you, yet not as silver; I tested you in the crucible of humiliation. ¹¹ On My account, on My account am I doing it. For how is My name being violated! Yet My glory I will not give to another! ¹² Hearken to Me, Jacob, My servant, and Israel, My called. I am He! I am the First! Indeed, I am the Last! ¹³ Indeed, My hand founded the earth, and My right handbreadth measured the heavens. I am calling to them, and they are standing together. ¹⁴ Convene, all of you, and hear! Who among you tells these things? Yahweh loves him, he who will do His desire in Babylon, when His arm is on the Chaldeans. ¹⁵ I, yea I, I speak. Indeed, I call him. I bring him, and I prosper his way. ¹⁶ Draw near to me! Hear this! From the beginning, I did not speak in concealment, nor in a dark place of the earth. From the era of its coming, I was there, and now my Lord Yahweh sends me and His spirit. ¹⁷ Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, I, Yahweh, your Elohim, will teach you to benefit, causing you to tread in the way in which you shall go. ¹⁸ O that you attended to My instructions! Then your welfare will become as a stream, and your righteousness as billows of the sea. ¹⁹ Then your seed will become as the sand of the sea, and the offspring of your bowels as the soil of the land. Not cut off nor exterminated shall be his name from before Me. ²⁰ Fare forth from Babylon! Away from the Chaldeans! With a voice of jubilation tell it, and announce this; bring it forth unto the ends of the earth: Say, Yahweh has redeemed His servant Jacob. ²¹ And they were not thirsty in the deserts in which He conducted them. He caused water from a rock to exude for them. And rending was the rock, and gushing was the water, and My people drink. ²² No peace,says Yahweh, is there for the wicked.