rwbs - Isaiah:48-50

rwbs@Isaiah:48:1 @ Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, not in truth, nor in righteousness.

rwbs@Isaiah:48:2 @ For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts his name.

rwbs@Isaiah:48:3 @ I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth from my mouth, and I showed them; I did suddenly, and they came to pass.

rwbs@Isaiah:48:4 @ Because I knew that thou obstinate, and thy neck an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; (note:)obstinate: Hebrews. hard(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:48:5 @ I have even from the beginning declared to thee; before it came to pass I showed thee: lest thou shouldest say, My idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

rwbs@Isaiah:48:6 @ Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare? I have showed ye new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.

rwbs@Isaiah:48:7 @ They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.

rwbs@Isaiah:48:8 @ Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time thy ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

rwbs@Isaiah:48:9 @ For my name’s sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I restrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

rwbs@Isaiah:48:10 @ Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. (note:)with…: or, for silver(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:48:11 @ For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do: for how should be profaned? and I will not give my glory to another.

rwbs@Isaiah:48:12 @ Hearken to me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I he; I the first, I also the last.

rwbs@Isaiah:48:13 @ My hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spread out the heavens: I call to them, they stand up together. (note:)my…: or, the palm of my right hand hath spread out(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:48:14 @ All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; who among them hath declared these? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm the Chaldeans.

rwbs@Isaiah:48:15 @ I, I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

rwbs@Isaiah:48:16 @ Come ye near to me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.

rwbs@Isaiah:48:17 @ Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I the LORD thy God who teacheth thee to profit, who leadeth thee by the way thou shouldest go.

rwbs@Isaiah:48:18 @ O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

rwbs@Isaiah:48:19 @ Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy body like its gravel; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

rwbs@Isaiah:48:20 @ Go ye forth from Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

rwbs@Isaiah:48:21 @ And they thirsted not 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.

rwbs@Isaiah:48:22 @ no peace, saith the LORD, to the wicked.

rwbs@Isaiah:49:1 @ Listen, to me O isles; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the body of my mother hath he made mention of my name.

rwbs@Isaiah:49:2 @ And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;

rwbs@Isaiah:49:3 @ And said to me, Thou my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.

rwbs@Isaiah:49:4 @ Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing, and in vain: surely my judgment with the LORD, and my work with my God. (note:)my work: or, my reward(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:49:5 @ And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength. (note:)Though…: or, That Israel may be gathered to him, and I may, etc(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:49:6 @ And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation to the end of the earth. (note:)It is…: or, Art thou lighter than that thou shouldest, etc(:note)preserved: or, desolations

rwbs@Isaiah:49:7 @ Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee. (note:)whom man…: or, that is despised in soul(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:49:8 @ Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages; (note:)establish: or, raise up(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:49:9 @ That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures in all high places.

rwbs@Isaiah:49:10 @ They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

rwbs@Isaiah:49:11 @ And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.

rwbs@Isaiah:49:12 @ Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.

rwbs@Isaiah:49:13 @ Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.

rwbs@Isaiah:49:14 @ But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.

rwbs@Isaiah:49:15 @ Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet I will not forget thee. (note:)that…: Hebrews. from having compassion(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:49:16 @ Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of hands; thy walls continually before me.

rwbs@Isaiah:49:17 @ Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee.

rwbs@Isaiah:49:18 @ Lift up thy eyes all around, and behold: all these gather themselves together, come to thee. I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them, as a bride.

rwbs@Isaiah:49:19 @ For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too small by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

rwbs@Isaiah:49:20 @ The children who thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thy ears, The place too small for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

rwbs@Isaiah:49:21 @ Then shalt thou say in thy heart, Who hath begotten these for me, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and moving to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where they?

rwbs@Isaiah:49:22 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon shoulders. (note:)arms: Hebrews. bosom(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:49:23 @ And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow to thee with face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. (note:)nursing fathers: Hebrews. nourishers(:note)queens: Heb. princesses

rwbs@Isaiah:49:24 @ Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? (note:)lawful…: Hebrews. captivity of the just(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:49:25 @ But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. (note:)captives: Hebrews. captivity(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:49:26 @ And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunk with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. (note:)sweet: or, new(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:50:1 @ Thus saith the LORD, Where the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or whom of my creditors to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

rwbs@Isaiah:50:2 @ Why, when I came, no man? when I called, none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because no water, and dieth for thirst.

rwbs@Isaiah:50:3 @ I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

rwbs@Isaiah:50:4 @ The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to weary: he awakeneth morning by morning, he awakeneth my ear to hear as the learned.

rwbs@Isaiah:50:5 @ The Lord GOD opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned backward.

rwbs@Isaiah:50:6 @ I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

rwbs@Isaiah:50:7 @ For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

rwbs@Isaiah:50:8 @ near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who my adversary? let him come near to me. (note:)mine…: Hebrews. the master of my cause?(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:50:9 @ Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who he shall condemn me? lo, they all shall grow old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

rwbs@Isaiah:50:10 @ Who among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and rely upon his God.

rwbs@Isaiah:50:11 @ Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that surround with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks ye have kindled. This shall ye have of my hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.

rwbs@Isaiah:51:1 @ Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look to the rock ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit ye are dug.