[1] Hear you this, 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
Yahweh, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in
righteousness [2] (for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay
themselves on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Hosts is his name): [3] I have
declared the former things from of old; yes, they went forth out of my
mouth, and I showed them: suddenly I did them, and they happened. [4]
Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and
your brow brass; [5] therefore I have declared it to you from of old;
before it came to pass I showed it you; lest you should say, My idol has
done them, and my engraved image, and my molten image, has commanded them.
[6] You have heard it; see all this; and you, will you not declare it? I
have showed you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you
have not known. [7] They are created now, and not from of old; and before
this day you didn`t hear them; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them.
[8] Yes, you didn`t hear; yes, you didn`t know; yes, from of old your ear
was not opened: for I knew that you did deal very treacherously, and was
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 not cut you off.
[10] Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in
the furnace of affliction. [11] For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do
it; for how should [my name] be profaned? and my glory I will not give to
another. [12] Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am
the first, I also am the last. [13] Yes, 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 you, and hear;
who among them has declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves shall
perform 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 near to me, hear you
this; from the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it
was, there am I: and now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, and his Spirit. [17]
Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Yahweh your
God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should
go. [18] Oh that you had listened 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 loins like the
grains of it: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.
[20] Go you forth from 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, Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob. [21] They didn`t thirst
when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of
the rock for them; he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out. [22]
There is no peace, says Yahweh, to the wicked.
