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I caused thee to hear new things from now, and hidden things, and thou knewest them not.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Now were they created and not from then; and before the day and thou heardest them not; lest thou shalt say, Behold, I knew them.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Also thou heardest not; also thou knewest not; also from then thine ear was not opened: for I knew, acting deceitfully, thou wilt act deceitfully, and it was called to thee transgressing from the womb.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For sake of my name I will delay Mine anger; I will be muzzled towards thee, not cutting thee of.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Behold, I purified thee and not with silver; I chose thee in the furnace of affliction.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For my sake, for my sake will I do: for how shall it be defiled? and I will not give my glory to another.<p> <A name="13"></a><p class="hdg">Deliverance Promised to Israel<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Hear to me, O Jacob and Israel, my calling; I am he, I the firsts also I the last.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Also my hand will found the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens: -I call to them, they shall stand together.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Assemble, all ye, and hear; who among them announced these things? Jehovah loved him: he will do his delight upon Babel, and his arm upon the Chaldeans.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I, I spake; also I called him: I brought him, and his way prospered.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Draw ye near to me, hear this; I spake not in secret in the beginning; from the time of its being, there was I: and now the Lord Jehovah sent me, and his spirit.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Thus said Jehovah redeeming thee, the Holy One of Israel: I Jehovah thy God teaching thee to profit, causing thee to tread in a way thou shalt go.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Would thou didst attend to my commands! and thy peace shall be as a river, and thy justice as the billows of the sea.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And thy seed shall be as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels as its bowels; his name shall not be cut off and shall not be destroyed from before me.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Go ye forth from Babel; flee from the Chaldeans; with the voice of shouting, announce ye; cause this to be heard; cause it to go forth, even to the extremity of the earth; say ye, Jehovah redeemed his servant Jacob.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And they thirsted not causing them to go in dry places: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: and he will cleave asunder the rock, and the waters will flow out.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>No peace, said Jehovah, to the unjust.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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