rsv Isaiah:48:1-11
rsv@Isaiah:48:1 @ Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and who came forth from the loins of Judah; who swear by the name of the LORD, and confess the God of Israel, but not in truth or right.
rsv@Isaiah:48:2 @ For they call themselves after the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; the LORD of hosts is his name.
rsv@Isaiah:48:3 @ "The former things I declared of old, they went forth from my mouth and I made them known; then suddenly I did them and they came to pass.
rsv@Isaiah:48:4 @ Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,
rsv@Isaiah:48:5 @ I declared them to you from of old, before they came to pass I announced them to you, lest you should say, `My idol did them, my graven image and my molten image commanded them.'
rsv@Isaiah:48:6 @ "You have heard; now see all this; and will you not declare it? From this time forth I make you hear new things, hidden things which you have not known.
rsv@Isaiah:48:7 @ They are created now, not long ago; before today you have never heard of them, lest you should say, `Behold, I knew them.'
rsv@Isaiah:48:8 @ You have never heard, you have never known, from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would deal very treacherously, and that from birth you were called a rebel.
rsv@Isaiah:48:9 @ "For my name's sake I defer my anger, for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off.
rsv@Isaiah:48:10 @ Behold, I have refined you, but not like silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.
rsv@Isaiah:48:11 @ For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.
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