vw - 48

vw@Isaiah:48:1 @ Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Jehovah and make mention of the God of Israel (but not in truth nor in righteousness;

vw@Isaiah:48:2 @ for they name themselves as being of the holy city, and rest themselves on the God of Israel; Jehovah of Hosts is His name):

vw@Isaiah:48:3 @ I have declared the former things from the beginning, and they proceeded forth out of My mouth, and I proclaimed to them. I acted suddenly, and they came to pass,

vw@Isaiah:48:4 @ because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your brow bronze.

vw@Isaiah:48:5 @ I even declared it to you from the beginning. Before it happened I proclaimed it to you, lest you should say, My idol has done them, and my graven image and my molten image has commanded them.

vw@Isaiah:48:6 @ You have heard; see all this. And will you not declare it? I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, and you did not know them.

vw@Isaiah:48:7 @ They are created now, and not since the beginning; even before the day when you did not hear them; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them.

vw@Isaiah:48:8 @ Surely you did not hear, surely you did not know; surely from long ago your ear was not opened. For I knew that you would deceive with treachery, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

vw@Isaiah:48:9 @ For My names sake I will prolong My anger, and for My praise I will restrain for you, so that I do not cut you off.

vw@Isaiah:48:10 @ Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

vw@Isaiah:48:11 @ For my own sake, for My own sake I will do it; for why should My name be defiled? And I will not give My glory to another.

vw@Isaiah:48:12 @ Listen to me O Jacob, and Israel My called; I am He; I am the first, I also am the last.

vw@Isaiah:48:13 @ My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth, and My right hand has stretched out the heavens. When I called to them, they stood up together.

vw@Isaiah:48:14 @ Let all of you gather and hear. Who among them has declared these things? Jehovah has loved him; He will do as He pleases upon Babylon, and His arm shall be upon the Chaldeans.

vw@Isaiah:48:15 @ I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him; I have brought him and made his way prosperous.

vw@Isaiah:48:16 @ Come near to Me, hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning. From the time it existed, I was there; and now the Lord Jehovah, and His Spirit, has sent Me.

vw@Isaiah:48:17 @ Thus says Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Jehovah your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

vw@Isaiah:48:18 @ Oh that you had paid attention to My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

vw@Isaiah:48:19 @ Your seed also would have been like the sand, and the offspring of your womb like grains of sand; his name would not have been cut off nor destroyed from before My face.

vw@Isaiah:48:20 @ Go out from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare it with a resounding voice! Proclaim this; let it go forth to the ends of the earth! Say, Jehovah has redeemed His servant, Jacob!

vw@Isaiah:48:21 @ And they did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; He split open the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

vw@Isaiah:48:22 @ There is no peace, says Jehovah, unto the wicked.

Isaiah 48