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          DASV: Isaiah 48    

1 Hear this, O house of Jacob,
     who are called by the name of Israel,
     and born from the waters of Judah,
      who swear by the name of the LORD,
     and invoke the God of Israel,
     but not in truth or righteousness.
2 For they call themselves after the holy city,
     and depend on the God of Israel.
The LORD of hosts is his name.
3 I have predicted things beforehand from long ago;
     yes, they went out of my mouth,
           and I proclaimed them.
     Suddenly I did them,
          and they came to pass.
4 I know how obstinate you are;
     and your neck muscles are like iron,
      and your forehead like bronze.
5 Therefore I predicted it to you long ago;
     I announced it to you before it came to pass;
     so you could not say,
     'My idol did this,
           and my carved image,
                and my metal idol commanded them.'
6 You have heard my predictions;
          now look at all this.
      Will you not acknowledge it?

      From now on I am showing you new things,
     hidden things which you have not previously known.
7 They are happening now, not in the past;
     before today you never heard of them;
      so you cannot boast,
     'Look, I knew them already.'
8 You never heard;
     yes, you never knew;
           yes, from long ago your ear was not opened to it;
      for I knew that you would act treacherously,
     and that from birth you were called a rebel.
9 For my name's sake I will defer my anger,
     and for my praise I will restrain it for you,
           so that I do not destroy you.
10 Look, I have refined you, but not like silver;
     I chose to refine you in the furnace of affliction.
11 For my own sake,
          for my own sake, I will do it.
      For how can I allow my name to be profaned?
          My glory I will not give to another.

12 Listen to me, Jacob,
     and Israel, my called ones:
      I am he;
      I am the first,
           and I am the last.
13 Yes, my hands laid the foundation of the earth,
     and my right hand spread out the heavens;
      when I call to them,
     they stand up together.
14 Assemble yourselves, all you, and listen.
     Who among them has predicted these things?
      He whom the LORD loves will perform his pleasure on Babylon,
          and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.
15 I, even I, have spoken;
     yes, I have called him.
      I brought him,
     and his course of action will be successful.

16 Come near to me,
     listen to this.
      "From the beginning I have not spoken in secret;
     when it happens I am there."
      So now the sovereign LORD has sent me,
          along with his Spirit.

17 This is what the LORD says,
     your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
      "I am the LORD your God,
     who teaches you what is good,
     who leads you in the way you should go.
18 O that you had obeyed my commandments!
     Then your peace would have been like a river,
           and your righteousness as the waves of the sea.
19 Your descendants would have been like the sand,
          and your offspring like grains of sand.
      Their name would not be cut off
          or destroyed from before me."

20 Leave Babylon,
          flee from the Chaldeans.
      Announce it with a shout for joy,
          proclaim it to the ends of the earth.
     Say, "The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob."
21 They were not thirsty when he led them through the deserts;
     he caused waters to flow out of the rock for them;
     he even split the rock and water gushed out.

22 "There is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked."

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