MKJV - Isaiah - 48

48:1  Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of the LORD and make mention of the God of Israel ( but not in truth nor in righteousness).

48:2  For they call themselves of the holy city, and rest themselves on the God of Israel; the LORD of hosts is His name.

48:3  I have foretold the former things from the beginning; and they went out of My mouth; and I made them hear; I acted suddenly; and they came about.

48:4  Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your brow bronze.

48:5  And I declared it to you from the beginning. Before it happened I revealed it to you; lest you should say, My idol has done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, has commanded them.

48:6  You heard; see it all; and will you not declare? I have shown you 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; even before the day when you did not hear them; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them.

48:8  Yea, you did not hear; yea, you did not know; yea, from the time that your ear was not opened; for I surely know that you will betray and trespass; from the womb it was called to you.

48:9  For My name's sake I will put off My anger, and for My praise I will hold back for you, that I do not cut you off.

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

48:11  For my sake, for My sake I will do it; for why should My name be defiled? 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 also am the last.

48:13  My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth, and My right hand has stretched out the heavens. I called; they stood up together.

48:14  Let all of you gather and hear; who among them has declared these things? The LORD has loved him; He will do His pleasure on Babylon, and His arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

48:15  I, I, have spoken; yea, I have called him; I brought him and he makes his way succeed.

48:16  Come near to me, hear this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning. From its being, I was there; and now the Lord Jehovah, and His Spirit, has sent me.

48:17  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 by the way that you should go.

48:18  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.

48:19  And your seed would have been like the sand, and the offspring of your bowels like its grain; his name would not have been cut off nor destroyed from before Me.

48:20  Go out of Babylon; flee from the Chaldeans. Tell it with a voice of singing, let this be heard, let it go out 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 out of the rock for them; He cut open the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

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