48:1  'Hear this, O house of Jacob,
Who are called by the name of Israel,
And have come forth from the wellsprings of Judah;
Who swear by the name of the LORD,
And make mention of the God of Israel,
But not in truth or in righteousness;

48:2  For they call themselves after the holy city,
And lean on the God of Israel;
The LORD of hosts is His name:

48:3  “ I have declared the former things from the beginning;
They went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to hear it.
Suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.

48:4  Because I knew that you were obstinate,
And your neck was an iron sinew,
And your brow bronze,

48:5  Even from the beginning I have declared it to you;
Before it came to pass I proclaimed it to you,
Lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them,
And my carved image and my molded image
Have commanded them.’

48:6  ' You have heard;
See all this.
And will you not declare it?
I have made you hear new things from this time,
Even hidden things, and you did not know them.

48:7  They are created now and not from the beginning;
And before this day you have not heard them,
Lest you should say, ‘Of course I knew them.’

48:8  Surely you did not hear,
Surely you did not know;
Surely from long ago your ear was not opened.
For I knew that you would deal very treacherously,
And were called a transgressor from the womb.

48:9  “ For My name’s sake I will defer My anger,
And for My praise I will restrain it from you,
So that I do not cut you off.

48:10  Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

48:11  For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it;
For how should My name be profaned?
And I will not give My glory to another.

48:12  “ Listen to Me, O Jacob,
And Israel, My called:
I am He, I am the First,
I am also the Last.

48:13  Indeed My hand has laid the foundation of the earth,
And My right hand has stretched out the heavens;
When I call to them,
They stand up together.

48:14  “ All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear!
Who among them has declared these things?
The LORD loves him;
He shall do His pleasure on Babylon,
And His arm shall be against the Chaldeans.

48:15  I, even I, have spoken;
Yes, I have called him,
I have brought him, and his way will prosper.

48:16  ' Come near to Me, hear this:
I have not spoken in secret from the beginning;
From the time that it was, I was there.
And now the Lord GOD and His Spirit
Have sent Me.'

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 by the way you should go.

48:18  Oh, that you had heeded My commandments!
Then your peace would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

48:19  Your descendants also would have been like the sand,
And the offspring of your body like the grains of sand;
His name would not have been cut off
Nor destroyed from before Me.”

48:20  Go forth from Babylon!
Flee from the Chaldeans!
With a voice of singing,
Declare, proclaim this,
Utter it to the end of the earth;
Say, “The LORD has redeemed
His servant Jacob!”

48:21  And they did not thirst
When He led them through the deserts;
He caused the waters to flow from the rock for them;
He also split the rock, and the waters gushed out.

48:22  ' There is no peace,' says the LORD, 'for the wicked.'