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Isaiah
Chapter 48
1
Hear you this, O house of Jacob,
who
are called by the name of Israel,
and
are come forth out of the waters of Judah,
who
swear by the name of Jehovah/God,
and
make mention of the 'Elohiym/Godhead of Israel,
{but}
not in truth, nor in righteousness.
2
For they call themselves of the holy city,
and
stay themselves upon the 'Elohiym/Godhead of Israel . . .
Jehovah/God
of the armies/hosts is His name.
3
I have declared the former things from the beginning;
and
they went forth out of My mouth,
and
I showed them.
I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.
4~~
Because I knew that you are stubborn {and arrogant}
and
your neck is an iron sinew,
and
your forehead like bronze.
5
I have even from the beginning declared it to you . . .
before
it came to pass I showed it 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 all this . . . and will not you declare it?
I
have showed you new things from this time,
even
hidden things,
and
you did not know them.
7
They are created now,
and
not from the beginning . . .
even
before the day
when
you heard them not;
lest
you should say, Behold, I knew them.
8 Yes, you heard not.
Yes, you knew not.
Yes,
from that time that your ear was not opened . . .
for
I knew that you would deal very treacherously,
and
were called a transgressor from the womb.
9
For My name's sake will I defer My anger,
and
for My praise will I refrain for you,
that
I cut you not off.
10 Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver.
I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
11
For My own sake,
even
for My own sake,
will
I do it.
For how should My name be polluted?
And I will not give My glory unto another.
12
'Hear, listen and obey' {shama`} unto me,
O
Jacob and Israel, My called.
I am He.
I am the first {the Alpha}.
I also am the last {the Omega}.
13
My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth,
and
My right hand has spanned the heavens.
When I call unto them, they stand up together.
14 All you, assemble yourselves, and hear.
Who among them has declared these things?
Jehovah/God has loved him.
He
will do his pleasure on Babylon,
and
his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
15 I, even I, have spoken.
Yes, I have called him.
I
have brought him,
and
He shall make His Way prosperous.
16~~
Come you {Israel} near to Me, listen to this;
from
the first I {Jesus}
have
not spoken in secret.
From the time it took place, I {Jesus} was there.
And
now the Lord/'Adonay God/Jehovah {the Father}
has
sent Me {Jesus},
and
His Spirit {God the Holy Spirit}.
17``
Thus said Jehovah/God, your Redeemer,
the
Holy One of Israel,
I
am Jehovah/God your 'Elohiym/Godhead
Who
teaches you to profit,
Who
leads you by the Way that you should go.
18
O that you have 'heard, listened and obeyed' {shama`}
to
My commandments!
Then
had your peace been as a river,
and
your righteousness as the waves of the sea . . . 19
your
seed also had been as the sand,
and
the offspring of your bowels like the gravel thereof . . .
his
name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before Me.
20
Go you forth of Babylon,
flee
you from the Chaldeans,
with
a voice of singing declare you, tell this,
utter
it even to the end of the earth . . . say you,
Jehovah/God
has redeemed His servant Jacob.
21 And they thirsted not when He led them through the deserts.
He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them.
He
'kept on breaking open' the rock also,
and
the waters gushed out.
22 There is no peace, said Jehovah/God, unto the wicked.
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