Isaiah:48

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* "Hear this , house of Jacob , you who are called by the name of Israel , and have come forth out of the waters of Judah ; who swear by the name of Yahweh , 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 on the God of Israel ; Yahweh of Armies is his name ): * I have declared the former things from of old ; yes , they went forth out of my mouth , and I showed them : suddenly I did them , and they happened . * Because I knew that you are obstinate , and your neck is an iron sinew , and your brow brass ; * therefore I have declared it to you from of old ; before it came to pass I showed it to you ; lest you should say , 'My idol has done them , and my engraved image , and my molten image , has commanded them .' * You have heard it ; see all this ; and you , will you not declare it ? "I have shown you new things from this time , even hidden things , which you have not known . * They are created now , and not from of old ; and before this day you didn 't hear them ; lest you should say , 'Behold , I knew them .' * Yes , you didn 't hear ; yes , you didn 't know ; yes , from of old your ear was not opened : for I knew that you dealt very treacherously , and was called a transgressor from the womb . * For my name 's sake will I defer my anger , and for my praise will I refrain for you , that I not cut you off . * Behold , I have refined you , but not as silver ; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction . * For my own sake , for my own sake , will I do it ; for how should my name be profaned ? I will not give my glory to another . * "Listen to me , O Jacob , and Israel my called : I am he ; I am the first , I also am the last . * Yes , my hand has laid the foundation of the earth , and my right hand has spread out the heavens : when I call to them , they stand up together . * "Assemble yourselves , all you , and hear ; who among them has declared these things ? He whom Yahweh loves shall perform his pleasure on Babylon , and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans . * I , even I , have spoken ; yes , I have called him ; I have brought him , and he shall make his way prosperous . * "Come near to me and hear this : "From the beginning I have not spoken in secret ; from the time that it was , there am I ." Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me , with his Spirit . * Thus says Yahweh , your Redeemer , the Holy One of Israel : I am Yahweh your God , who teaches you to profit , who leads you by the way that you should go . * Oh that you had listened to my commandments ! then your peace would have been like a river , and your righteousness like the waves of the sea : * your seed also had been as the sand , and the offspring of your body like its grains : his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me . * Go forth from Babylon , flee from the Chaldeans ; with a voice of singing declare , tell this , utter it even to the end of the earth : say , Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob . * They didn 't thirst when he led them through the deserts ; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them ; he split the rock also , and the waters gushed out . * "There is no peace ," says Yahweh , "for the wicked ."

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