Isaiah:48

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* Hear ye these things , O house of Jacob , you that are called by the name of Israel , and are come forth out of the waters of Juda , you who swear by the name of the Lord , and make mention of the God of Israel , but not in truth , nor in justice . * For they are called of the holy city , and are established upon the God of Israel : the Lord of hosts is his name . * The former things of old I have declared , and they went forth out of my mouth , and I have made them to be heard : I did them suddenly and they came to pass . * For I knew that thou art stubborn , and thy neck is as an iron sinew , and thy forehead as brass . * I foretold thee of old , before they came to pass I told thee , lest thou shouldst say : My idols have done these things , and my graven and molten things have commanded them . * See now all the things which thou hast heard : but have you declared them ? I have shewn thee new things from that time , and things are kept which thou knowest not : * They are created now , and not of old : and before the day , when thou heardest them not , lest thou shouldst say : Behold I knew them . * Thou hast neither heard , nor known , neither was thy ear opened of old . For I know that transgressing thou wilt transgress , and I have called thee a transgressor from the womb . * For my name 's sake I will remove my wrath far off : and for my praise I will bridle thee , lest thou shouldst perish . * Behold I have refined thee , but not as silver , I have chosen thee in the furnace of poverty . * For my own sake , for my own sake will I do it , that I may not be blasphemed : and I will not give my glory to another . * Hearken to me , O Jacob , and thou Israel whom I call : I am he , I am the first , and I am the last . * My hand also hath founded the earth , and my right hand hath measured the heavens : I shall call them , and they shall stand together . * Assemble yourselves together , all you , and hear : who among them hath declared these things ? the Lord hath loved him , he will do his pleasure in Babylon , and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans . * I , even I have spoken and called him : I have brought him , and his way is made prosperous . * Come ye near unto me , and hear this : I have not spoken in secret from the beginning : from the time before it was done , I was there , and now the Lord God hath sent me , and his spirit . * Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer , the Holy One of Israel : I am the Lord thy God that teach thee profitable things , that govern thee in the way that thou walkest . * O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments : thy peace had been as a river , and thy justice as the waves of the sea , * And thy seed had been as the sand , and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof : his name should not have perished , nor have been destroyed from before my face . * Come forth out of Babylon , flee ye from the Chaldeans , declare it with the voice of joy : make this to be heard , and speak it out even to the ends of the earth . Say : The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob . * They thirsted not in the desert , when he led them out : he brought forth water out of the rock for them , and he clove the rock , and the waters gushed out . * There is no peace to the wicked , saith the Lord .

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