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Chapter 48 |
| 1 | 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.
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| 2 | For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the
God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name. |
| 3 | 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.
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| 4 | Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew,
and thy brow brass; |
| 5 | 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. |
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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. |
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7 | 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. |
| 8 | 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. |
| 9 |
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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
