Isaiah:48

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* Hear ye this , O house of Jacob , who are (note :)He detects their hypocrisy who claimed to be Israelites , but were not so .(:note ) called by the name of Israel , and have come forth out of Meaning , the fountain and stock . the waters of Judah , who swear by the name of the LORD , and make mention of the God of Israel , [but ] not in truth , nor in righteousness . * For they call themselves of the holy city , and stay themselves (note :)They make a show , as though they would have no other God .(:note ) upon the God of Israel ; The LORD of hosts [is ] his name . * I have declared the former things from the beginning ; and they went forth from my mouth , and I showed (note :)He shows that they could not accuse him in anything , as he had performed whatever he had promised .(:note ) them ; I did [them ] suddenly , and they came to pass . * Because I knew that (note :)I have done for you more than I promised , that your stubbornness and impudency might have been overcome .(:note ) thou [art ] obstinate , and thy neck [is ] an iron sinew , and thy brow brass ; * I have even from the beginning declared [it ] to thee ; before it came to pass I showed (note :)How you should be delivered out of Babylon .(:note ) [it ] thee : lest thou shouldest say , My idol hath done them , and my graven image , and my molten image , hath commanded them . * Thou hast heard , see all this ; and will not ye (note :)Will you not acknowledge my blessing , and declare it to others ?(:note ) declare [it ]? I have showed ye new things from this time , even hidden things , and thou didst not know them . * They are created now , and not from the beginning ; even before the day when thou heardest them not ; lest thou shouldest say , Behold , I (note :)Showing that man 's arrogancy is the reason God does not declare all things at once , lest they should attribute this knowledge to their own wisdom .(:note ) knew them . * Yea , thou heardest not ; yea , thou knewest not ; yea , from that time [that ] thy ear was not opened : for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously , and wast called a transgressor from the (note :)From the time that I brought you of Egypt : for that deliverance was as the birth of the Church .(:note ) womb . * For my name 's sake will I defer my anger , and for my praise will I refrain for thee , (note :)As it was my free mercy that I chose you : so it is my free mercy that must save you .(:note ) that I cut thee not off . * Behold , I have refined thee , but (note :)For I had respect to your weakness and infirmity : for in silver there is some pureness , but in us there is nothing but dross .(:note ) not with silver ; I have I took you out of the furnace where you would have been consumed . chosen thee in the furnace of affliction . * For my own sake , [even ] for my own sake , will I do [it ]: for how should [my name ] (note :)God joins the salvation of his with his own honour : so that they cannot perish , but his glory would be diminished , as in ( Deu_32:27 ).(:note ) be profaned ? Read ( Isa_42:8 ). and I will not give my glory to another . * Hearken to me , O Jacob and Israel , my called ; (note :)Read ( Isa_41:4 ).(:note ) I [am ] he ; I [am ] the first , I also [am ] the last . * My hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth , and my right hand hath spread out the heavens : [when ] I call to them , (note :)To obey me , and to do whatever I command them .(:note ) they stand up together . * All ye , assemble yourselves , and hear ; who among them hath declared these [things ]? The LORD hath loved (note :)Meaning , Cyrus , whom he had chosen to destroy Babylon .(:note ) him : he will do his pleasure on Babylon , and his arm [shall be on ] the Chaldeans . * I , euen I haue spoken it , and I haue called him : I haue brought him , and his way shal prosper . * Come ye near to me , hear ye this ; I have not spoken in secret from the (note :)Since the time that I declared myself to your fathers .(:note ) beginning ; from the time that it was , there [am ] I : and now the Lord GOD , and his Spirit , hath Thus the Prophet speaks for himself , and to assure them of these things . sent me . * Thus saith the LORD , thy Redeemer , the Holy One of Israel ; I [am ] the LORD thy God who teacheth thee (note :)What things will do you good .(:note ) to profit , who leadeth thee by the way [that ] thou shouldest go . * Oh that thou haddest hearkened to my commaundements ! then had thy prosperitie bene as the floude , and thy righteousnesse as the waues of the sea . * Thy seed also had been as the sand , and the offspring of thy body like its gravel ; his (note :)That is , the prosperous estate of Israel .(:note ) name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me . * * And they (note :)He shows that it will be as easy to deliver them , as he did their fathers out of Egypt .(:note ) thirsted not [when ] he led them through the deserts : he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them : he broke the rock also , and the waters gushed out . * [There is ] no (note :)Thus he speaks that the wicked hypocrites should not abuse God 's promise , in whom was neither faith nor repentance , as in ( Isa_57:21 )(:note ) peace , saith the LORD , to the wicked .

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