Isaiah 48
48:1Hear these things, O house of Jacob! the ones being called by the name Israel, and coming forth from waters of Judah, the ones swearing by an oath to the name of the lord God of Israel, ones remembering not with truth, nor with righteousness,
48:2and ones holding to the name of the holy city, and taking support upon the God of Israel; the lord of Hosts is his name.
48:3The former things again I announced, and from out of my mouth it came forth, and audibly it happened. Suddenly I did, and it came about.
48:4I know that you are hardened, and your neck is a nerve of iron, and your forehead is as brass.
48:5And I announced to you earlier what would happen before it came upon you. Audibly to you I did it, lest at some time or other you should say that, My idols did. And you should say that, The carvings and the molten images gave charge to me!
48:6You heard all, and you knew not. But even audibly I committed to you the new things from the present which are about to take place, and you spoke not.
48:7Now it takes place, and not earlier; and not in former days, and you heard them not. Lest you should say, Yes, I know them.
48:8Neither you knew, nor were knowing of, nor from the beginning when I opened your ears; for I knew that in disregarding you shall disregard, and you would be called lawless even from out of the belly.
48:9Because of my name I will show to you my rage, and I will bring my noble deeds upon you, that I should not utterly destroy you.
48:10Behold, I have bartered you, not for silver; and I rescued you from out of the furnace of poorness.
48:11Because of myself I will do, for my name is being profaned; and my glory I will not give to another.
48:12Hear me, O Jacob, and Israel whom I call! I am first, and I am into the eon.
48:13And my hand laid the foundation for the earth, and my right hand solidified the heaven. I will call them, and they shall stand together.
48:14And all shall be brought together, and they shall hear. Who announced to them these things? In loving you, I did your will against Babylon, to lift away the seed of the Chaldeans.
48:15I spoke, and I called. I brought him, and I prospered his way.
48:16Lead forward to me, and hear these things! I have not spoken from the beginning in secret. When it took place, I was there. And now the Lord, the lord, he sent me and his spirit.
48:17Thus says the lord, the one rescuing you, the holy one of Israel, I am the lord your God. I have shown to you how to find the way in which you shall go by it.
48:18And if you hearkened to my commandments, your peace would have been as a river, and your righteousness as a wave of the sea;
48:19and your seed would have become even as sand, and the progeny of your belly as dust of the earth; nor now in any way shall you be utterly destroyed, nor shall your name be destroyed before me.
48:20Come forth from out of Babylon, O one fleeing from the Chaldeans! With a voice of gladness announce it, and audibly let this be made known! Report unto the end of the earth! Say! The lord rescued his servant Jacob.
48:21And if they should thirst, he will lead them through the wilderness; he shall bring forth water from the rock to them; the rock shall be split and shall flow water, and my people shall drink.
48:22There is no rejoicing, says the lord, to the impious.