¹“Hear this , house of Jacob ,

you who are called by the name of Israel ,

and have come out of the waters of Judah .

You swear by the LORD ’s name ,

and make mention of the God of Israel ,

but not in truth , nor in righteousness —

²for they call themselves citizens of the holy city ,

and rely on the God of Israel ;

the LORD of Armies is his name .

³I have declared the former things from of old .

Yes, they went out of my mouth , and I revealed them .

I did them suddenly , and they happened .

⁴Because I knew that you are obstinate ,

and your neck is an iron sinew ,

and your brow bronze ;

⁵therefore I have declared it to you from of old;

before it came to pass I showed it to you ;

lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them .

My engraved image and my molten image has commanded them .’

⁶You have heard it .

Now see all this .

And you , won’t you declare it ?

“I have shown you new things from this time ,

even hidden things , which you have not known .

⁷They are created now , and not from of old .

Before today , you didn’t hear them ,

lest you should say, ‘Behold , I knew them .’

⁸Yes , you didn’t hear .

Yes , you didn’t 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.

⁹For 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 .

¹⁰Behold , I have refined you ,

but not as silver .

I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction .

¹¹For my own sake ,

for my own sake , I will do it ;

for how would my name be profaned ?

I will not give my glory to another .

¹²“Listen to me , O Jacob ,

and Israel my called :

I am he .

I am the first .

I am also the last.

¹³Yes, 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“Assemble yourselves , all of you , and hear !

Who amongst them has declared these things ?

He whom the LORD loves will do what he likes to Babylon,

and his arm will be against the Chaldeans .

¹⁵I , even I , have spoken .

Yes, I have called him .

I have brought him

and he shall 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 happened , I was there .”

Now the Lord GOD has sent me

with his Spirit .

¹⁷The LORD ,

your Redeemer ,

the Holy One of Israel , says :

“I am the LORD your God ,

who teaches you to profit ,

who leads you by the way that you should go .

¹⁸Oh that you had listened to my commandments !

Then your peace would have been like a river

and your righteousness like the waves of the sea .

¹⁹Your offspring also would have been as the sand

and the descendants of your body like its grains .

His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me .”

²⁰Leave Babylon!

Flee from the Chaldeans !

With the sound of joyful shouting announce this ,

tell it even to the end of the earth;

say , “The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob !”

²¹They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts .

He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them.

He also split the rock and the waters gushed out .

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