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Isaiah 48:8-22

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

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

  4. 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.

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

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

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

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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:

  12. Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

  13. Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

  14. And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

  15. There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.