rsv Isaiah:48:12-22
rsv@Isaiah:48:12 @ "Hearken to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called! I am He, I am the first, and I am the last.
rsv@Isaiah:48:13 @ My hand laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand forth together.
rsv@Isaiah:48:14 @ "Assemble, all of you, and hear! Who among them has declared these things? The LORD loves him; he shall perform his purpose on Babylon, and his arm shall be against the Chalde'ans.
rsv@Isaiah:48:15 @ I, even I, have spoken and called him, I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.
rsv@Isaiah:48:16 @ Draw near to me, hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it came to be I have been there." And now the Lord GOD has sent me and his Spirit.
rsv@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 in the way you should go.
rsv@Isaiah:48:18 @ O that you had hearkened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
rsv@Isaiah:48:19 @ your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me."
rsv@Isaiah:48:20 @ Go forth from Babylon, flee from Chalde'a, declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it, send it forth to the end of the earth; say, "The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!"
rsv@Isaiah:48:21 @ They thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he cleft the rock and the water gushed out.
rsv@Isaiah:48:22 @ "There is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked."
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