nkjv - Isaiah:48-50

nkjv@Isaiah:48:1 @ "Hear this, O house of Jacob, Who are called by the name of Israel, And have come forth from the wellsprings of Judah; Who swear by the name of the LORD, And make mention of the God of Israel, But not in truth or in righteousness;

nkjv@Isaiah:48:2 @ For they call themselves after the holy city, And lean on the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is His name:

nkjv@Isaiah:48:3 @ "I have declared the former things from the beginning; They went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to hear it. Suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:4 @ Because I knew that you were obstinate, And your neck was an iron sinew, And your brow bronze,

nkjv@Isaiah:48:5 @ Even from the beginning I have declared it to you; Before it came to pass I proclaimed it to you, Lest you should say, "My idol has done them, And my carved image and my molded image Have commanded them.'

nkjv@Isaiah:48:6 @ "You have heard; See all this. And will you not declare it? I have made you hear new things from this time, Even hidden things, and you did not know them.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:7 @ They are created now and not from the beginning; And before this day you have not heard them, Lest you should say, "Of course I knew them.'

nkjv@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 deal very treacherously, And were called a transgressor from the womb.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:9 @ "For My name's sake I will defer My anger, And for My praise I will restrain it from you, So that I do not cut you off.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:10 @ Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:11 @ For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it; For how should My name be profaned? And I will not give My glory to another.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:12 @ "Listen to Me, O Jacob, And Israel, My called: I am He, I am the First, I am also the Last.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:13 @ Indeed My hand has laid the foundation of the earth, And My right hand has stretched out the heavens; When I call to them, They stand up together.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:14 @ "All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear! Who among them has declared these things? The LORD loves him; He shall do His pleasure on Babylon, And His arm shall be against the Chaldeans.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:15 @ I, even I, have spoken; Yes, I have called him, I have brought him, and his way will prosper.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:16 @ "Come near to Me, hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; From the time that it was, I was there. And now the Lord GOD and His Spirit Have sent Me."

nkjv@Isaiah:48:17 @ Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: "I am the LORD your God, Who teaches you to profit, Who leads you by the way you should go.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:18 @ Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:19 @ Your descendants also would have been like the sand, And the offspring of your body like the grains of sand; His name would not have been cut off Nor destroyed from before Me."

nkjv@Isaiah:48:20 @ Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing, Declare, proclaim this, Utter it to the end of the earth; Say, "The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!"

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

nkjv@Isaiah:48:22 @ "There is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked."

nkjv@Isaiah:49:1 @ "Listen, O coastlands, to Me, And take heed, you peoples from afar! The LORD has called Me from the womb; From the matrix of My mother He has made mention of My name.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:2 @ And He has made My mouth like a sharp sword; In the shadow of His hand He has hidden Me, And made Me a polished shaft; In His quiver He has hidden Me."

nkjv@Isaiah:49:3 @ "And He said to me, "You are My servant, O Israel, In whom I will be glorified.'

nkjv@Isaiah:49:4 @ Then I said, "I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and in vain; Yet surely my just reward is with the LORD, And my work with my God."'

nkjv@Isaiah:49:5 @ "And now the LORD says, Who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, To bring Jacob back to Him, So that Israel is gathered to Him (For I shall be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, And My God shall be My strength),

nkjv@Isaiah:49:6 @ Indeed He says, "It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles, That You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth."'

nkjv@Isaiah:49:7 @ Thus says the LORD, The Redeemer of Israel, their Holy One, To Him whom man despises, To Him whom the nation abhors, To the Servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise, Princes also shall worship, Because of the LORD who is faithful, The Holy One of Israel; And He has chosen You."

nkjv@Isaiah:49:8 @ Thus says the LORD: "In an acceptable time I have heard You, And in the day of salvation I have helped You; I will preserve You and give You As a covenant to the people, To restore the earth, To cause them to inherit the desolate heritages;

nkjv@Isaiah:49:9 @ That You may say to the prisoners, "Go forth,' To those who are in darkness, "Show yourselves.' "They shall feed along the roads, And their pastures shall be on all desolate heights.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:10 @ They shall neither hunger nor thirst, Neither heat nor sun shall strike them; For He who has mercy on them will lead them, Even by the springs of water He will guide them.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:11 @ I will make each of My mountains a road, And My highways shall be elevated.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:12 @ Surely these shall come from afar; Look! Those from the north and the west, And these from the land of Sinim."

nkjv@Isaiah:49:13 @ Sing, O heavens! Be joyful, O earth! And break out in singing, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, And will have mercy on His afflicted.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:14 @ But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me, And my Lord has forgotten me."

nkjv@Isaiah:49:15 @ "Can a woman forget her nursing child, And not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:16 @ See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Your walls are continually before Me.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:17 @ Your sons shall make haste; Your destroyers and those who laid you waste Shall go away from you.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:18 @ Lift up your eyes, look around and see; All these gather together and come to you. As I live," says the LORD, "You shall surely clothe yourselves with them all as an ornament, And bind them on you as a bride does.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:19 @ "For your waste and desolate places, And the land of your destruction, Will even now be too small for the inhabitants; And those who swallowed you up will be far away.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:20 @ The children you will have, After you have lost the others, Will say again in your ears, "The place is too small for me; Give me a place where I may dwell.'

nkjv@Isaiah:49:21 @ Then you will say in your heart, "Who has begotten these for me, Since I have lost my children and am desolate, A captive, and wandering to and fro? And who has brought these up? There I was, left alone; But these, where were they?"'

nkjv@Isaiah:49:22 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will lift My hand in an oath to the nations, And set up My standard for the peoples; They shall bring your sons in their arms, And your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders;

nkjv@Isaiah:49:23 @ Kings shall be your foster fathers, And their queens your nursing mothers; They shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, And lick up the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD, For they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me."

nkjv@Isaiah:49:24 @ Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, Or the captives of the righteous be delivered?

nkjv@Isaiah:49:25 @ But thus says the LORD: "Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, And the prey of the terrible be delivered; For I will contend with him who contends with you, And I will save your children.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:26 @ I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh, And they shall be drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine. All flesh shall know That I, the LORD, am your Savior, And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."

nkjv@Isaiah:50:1 @ Thus says the LORD: "Where is the certificate of your mother's divorce, Whom I have put away? Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? For your iniquities you have sold yourselves, And for your transgressions your mother has been put away.

nkjv@Isaiah:50:2 @ Why, when I came, was there no man? Why, when I called, was there none to answer? Is My hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Indeed with My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; Their fish stink because there is no water, And die of thirst.

nkjv@Isaiah:50:3 @ I clothe the heavens with blackness, And I make sackcloth their covering."

nkjv@Isaiah:50:4 @ "The Lord GOD has given Me The tongue of the learned, That I should know how to speak A word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear To hear as the learned.

nkjv@Isaiah:50:5 @ The Lord GOD has opened My ear; And I was not rebellious, Nor did I turn away.

nkjv@Isaiah:50:6 @ I gave My back to those who struck Me, And My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting.

nkjv@Isaiah:50:7 @ "For the Lord GOD will help Me; Therefore I will not be disgraced; Therefore I have set My face like a flint, And I know that I will not be ashamed.

nkjv@Isaiah:50:8 @ He is near who justifies Me; Who will contend with Me? Let us stand together. Who is My adversary? Let him come near Me.

nkjv@Isaiah:50:9 @ Surely the Lord GOD will help Me; Who is he who will condemn Me? Indeed they will all grow old like a garment; The moth will eat them up.

nkjv@Isaiah:50:10 @ "Who among you fears the LORD? Who obeys the voice of His Servant? Who walks in darkness And has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD And rely upon his God.

nkjv@Isaiah:50:11 @ Look, all you who kindle a fire, Who encircle yourselves with sparks: Walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks you have kindled-- This you shall have from My hand: You shall lie down in torment.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:1 @ "Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, You who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were hewn, And to the hole of the pit from which you were dug.