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1Hear this, O house of Jacob,[#Num 24.7; Ps 68.26; Isa 45.23; 46.12]
who are called by the name of Israel
and who came forth from the loins of Judah,
who swear by the name of the Lord
and invoke the God of Israel
but not in truth or right.
2For they call themselves after the holy city[#Isa 52.1; Mic 3.11; Rom 2.17]
and lean on the God of Israel;
the Lord of hosts is his name.
3The former things I declared long ago;[#Josh 21.45; Isa 41.22; 42.9; 43.9; 44.7, 8; 45.21]
they went out from my mouth, and I made them known;
then suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.
4Because I know that you are obstinate,[#Ex 32.9; Deut 31.27; Ezek 2.4; 3.7–9]
and your neck is an iron sinew
and your forehead brass,
5I declared them to you from long ago,[#Ezek 2.4; 3.7]
before they came to pass I announced them to you,
so that you would not say, “My idol did them;
my carved image and my cast image commanded them.”
6You have heard; now see all this;[#Isa 42.9; 43.19]
and will you not declare it?
From this time forward I tell you new things,
hidden things that you have not known.
7They are created now, not long ago;
before today you have never heard of them,
so that you could not say, “I already knew them.”
8You have never heard; you have never known;[#Ps 58.3; Isa 42.25; 46.8]
from of old your ear has not been opened.
For I knew that you would act very treacherously
and that from birth you were called a rebel.
9For my name’s sake I defer my anger;[#v 11 ; Ps 78.38; Isa 30.18]
for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you,
so that I may not cut you off.
10See, I have refined you but not like silver;[#Jer 9.7; 11.4; Ezek 22.18–22; #48.10 Cn: Heb with]
I have tested you in the furnace of adversity.
11For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it,[#v 9 ; Deut 32.26; Isa 42.8; Ezek 20.9]
for why should my name be profaned?
My glory I will not give to another.
12Listen to me, O Jacob,[#Deut 32.39; Isa 41.4; Rev 1.17; 22.13]
and Israel, whom I called:
I am he; I am the first,
and I am the last.
13My hand laid the foundation of the earth,[#Ps 102.25; Isa 40.26]
and my right hand spread out the heavens;
when I summon them,
they stand at attention.
14Assemble, all of you, and hear![#Isa 43.9; 45.21; 46.10, 11; Jer 50.21–29]
Who among them has declared these things?
The one the Lord loves shall perform his purpose against Babylon,
and his arm shall be against the Chaldeans.
15I, even I, have spoken and called him;[#Isa 41.2; 45.1, 2]
I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.
16Draw near to me; hear this![#Isa 41.1; 43.13; 45.19; Zech 2.9, 11]
From the beginning I have not spoken in secret;
from the time it came to be I have been there.
And now the Lord God has sent me and his spirit.
17Thus says the Lord ,[#Ps 32.8; Isa 43.14]
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
I am the Lord your God,
who teaches you how to succeed,
who leads you in the way you should go.
18O that you had paid attention to my commandments![#Deut 32.29; Ps 119.165; Isa 61.10, 11]
Then your prosperity would have been like a river
and your success like the waves of the sea;
19your offspring would have been like the sand[#Gen 22.17; Isa 56.5; 66.22; Jer 32.22]
and your descendants like its grains;
their name would never be cut off
or destroyed from before me.
20Go out from Babylon; flee from Chaldea;[#Isa 42.10; 43.1; 62.11; Jer 50.8]
declare this with a shout of joy; proclaim it;
send it forth to the end of the earth;
say, “The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
21They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts;[#Ex 17.6; Ps 105.41; Isa 41.17]
he made water flow for them from the rock;
he split open the rock, and the water gushed out.
22“There is no peace,” says the Lord , “for the wicked.”[#Isa 57.21]