| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 6 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
