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;

¶ Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who call yourselves by the name of Israel, those that are come forth out of the waters of Judah, those who swear by the name of the LORD and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.

2 F or they call themselves after the holy city, And lean on the God of Israel; The Lord of hosts is His name:

For they call themselves of the holy city and stay themselves upon the God of Israel. The LORD of the hosts is his name.

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.

That which happened, I have already declared many days ago; and it went forth out of my mouth, and I published it; I did it suddenly, and it came to pass.

4 B ecause I knew that you were obstinate, And your neck was an iron sinew, And your brow bronze,

Because I know that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow bronze;

5 E ven 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.’

I have already declared it many days ago; before it came to pass I showed it to thee: lest thou should say, My idol has done it, my graven image, and my molten image, has commanded these things.

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.

Thou hast heard it, thou hast seen it all; and will ye not declare it? I have showed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.

7 T hey 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.’

They are created now, and not in days past; nor before this day hast thou heard them lest thou should say, Behold, I knew them.

8 S urely 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.

Certainly thou hast never heard this; certainly thou hast never known this; certainly thine ear was never before opened: for I knew that being unfaithful thou would disobey; therefore, I called thee a rebel from the womb.

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.

¶ For my name’s sake I will defer my anger, and for my praise I will wait patiently for thee that I not cut thee off.

10 B ehold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

Behold, I have refined thee, and not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

11 F or 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. God’s Ancient Plan to Redeem Israel

For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, I will do it, for how should my name be profaned? and I will not give my glory unto another.

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

Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

13 I ndeed 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.

Certainly my hand founded the earth, and my right hand measured the heavens with the palm; as I named them, they appeared together.

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.

All ye, assemble yourselves and hear; who is there among them that declares these things? The LORD has loved him, the one who will execute his will on Babylon and his arm upon the Chaldeans.

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

I, even I, have spoken; I have called him: I have brought him, and therefore his way shall be prospered.

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.”

¶ Come near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was done, I was there: and now the LORD God has sent me and his Spirit.

17 T hus 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.

Thus has the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel said: I am the LORD thy God who teaches thee to profit, who causes thee to walk by the way in which thou dost walk.

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

O that thou would look unto my commandments! Then thy peace would be as a river and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

19 Y our 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.”

Thy seed would be as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name would never be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

20 G o 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!”

Come out of Babylon, flee from among the Chaldeans. Give news of this with a voice of joy; publish this; take this news to the end of the earth; say, The LORD has redeemed his slave Jacob.

21 A nd 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.

And they did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he caused water to flow out of the rock for them; he clave the rock, and the waters gushed out.

22 “ There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.”

There is no peace for the wicked, said the LORD.