Isaiah 48

VIN(i) 1 Hear this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and came out from the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, and invoke the God of Israel, but not in truth and not in righteousness. 2 for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; the LORD of Armies is his name. 3 I have foretold the former things from then; and they went out of My mouth; and I made them hear; suddenly I acted, and they came about. 4 I know that you are stubborn, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your forehead bronze. 5 therefore I have declared it to you from of old. Before it happened I showed it to you, lest you should say, My idol has done them. And my graven image and my molten image, has commanded them. 6 You have heard; see it all. And will you not declare it? I announce new things to you from this time and hidden things that you have not known. 7 They are created now, not in the past. You have not heard about them before today, so you cannot say that you already knew about them. 8 Yes, you heard not. Yes, you did not know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened. For I knew that you dealt very treacherously and were called a transgressor from the womb. 9 For my name's sake, I will defer my anger, and for my praise, I hold it back for you so that I don't cut you off. 10 Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. 11 For my own sake, for my own sake I do it; for why should it be defiled? And I will not give my glory to another." 12 "Listen to me, Jacob, and Israel, whom I called: I am he. I am the first; also I am the last. 13 Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. when I call to them, they stand up together. 14 "Gather together, all of you, and listen. What idol has revealed such things? the LORD loves Cyrus. He will carry out the LORD's plan against Babylon. He will use his strength against the Babylonians. 15 I, even I, have spoken, yes, I have called him. I have brought him and he will make his way prosperous. 16 Come near to Me and hear this: 'From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I'. Now the Sovereign LORD has sent me, with His Spirit. 17 So 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. 18 Oh that you had paid attention to My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. 19 Your descendants would have been as the sand, and the offspring of your body like its grains; his name not be cut off nor destroyed from before me. 20 Go out from Babylon! Flee from Chaldea! Proclaim it with a shout of rejoicing; proclaim this! Send it forth to the end of the earth; say, "the LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!" 21 "They were not thirsty when he led them through the deserts. He made water flow from a rock for them. He split a rock, and water gushed out. 22 "There is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked."