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Isaiah 48:4-18

  1. Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

  2. I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

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

  4. They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.

  5. Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

  6. For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

  7. Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

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

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

  10. Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.

  11. All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

  12. I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

  13. Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.

  14. Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.

  15. O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: