Isaiah:48

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* Hear ye this O house of Jacob , Ye who call yourselves by the name of Israel , Yea from the waters of Judah , came they forth , Who swear by the name of Yahweh , And , by the God of Israel , call to remembrance Not in truth , nor in righteousness ; * For of the holy city , do they call themselves , And on the God of Israel , do they stay themselves , Yahweh of hosts , is his name . * Things in advance , of old , I declared , Yea out of mine own mouth , came they forth , that I might let them be known , Suddenly , I wrought and they came to pass . * Because I knew that Obstinate , thou wast , And , a sinew of iron , was thy neck , And thy brow , brazen , * therefore told I theein time past , Ere yet it came , I let thee hear , Lest thou shouldest say Mine idol wrought them , Yea , my carved image and my molten image , commanded them ! * Thou hast heardsee it whole , And will , ye , not tell ? I have let thee hear new thingsfrom the present time , Even secrets which ye knew not . * Now , are they created , and not in time past , And , before to-day , thou hadst not heard of them , Lest thou shouldest say , Lo ! I knew them ! * Nay ! thou hadst not heard , Nay ! thou hadst not known , Nay ! in time past , thine ear , was not opened , For I knew that thou , wouldst be treacherous , Yea a transgressor from birth , hast thou been called . * For the sake of mine own Name , will I defer mine anger , And for my praise , will I restrain myself towards thee , So as not to cut thee off . * Lo ! I have refined thee , but not as silver , I have tested thee , in a smelting-pot of affliction . * For mine own sakefor mine own sake , will I effectually work For how should it be profaned ? And , my gloryto another , will I not give . * Hearken unto me O Jacob , And Israel , my called one , I , am , the Same I , the first , yea , I , the last : * Surely , mine own hand , founded the earth , And , my right hand , stretched out the heavens , While I was calling unto them , they stood forth , at once * Assemble yourselvesall of you and hear , Who among them , hath told these things ? he whom Yahweh loveth , will execute His pleasure , on Babylon , And his stroke on the Chaldeans . * II , have spoken , Yea I have called him , I have brought him in , and he shall make prosperous his way . * Draw ye near unto mehear ye this , Not in advance in secret , have I spoken , From the very time it cometh into being , there , am I , And , now , My Lord Yahweh hath sent me and his spirit . * Thus saith Yahweh Thy Redeemer , The Holy One of Israel , IYahweh , am thy God , Teaching thee to profit , Guiding thee in the way thou shouldest go . * Oh ! that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments , Then had been , like a river , thy prosperity , And , thy righteousness , like the waves of the sea : * Then had been , like the sand , thy seed , And , the offspring of thy body , like the grains thereof , Neither cut off nor destroyed had been his name from before me . * Come ye forth out of Babylon , Flee from among the Chaldeans , With triumphant voice , tell yelet this be heard , Let it go forth as far as the end of the earth , Say ye Yahweh hath redeemed his servant Jacob ! * And they thirsted not , when , through dry places , he led them , Waters out of the rock , caused hero flow out to them , Yea be cleft a rock and , there gushed out waters : * No well-being , saith Yahweh to the lawless ,

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