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id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/47.htm" title="Isaiah 47">◄</a> Isaiah 48 <a href="../isaiah/49.htm" title="Isaiah 49">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Hear ye this, O house of Jacob,</div><div class="po2">Who are called by the name of Israel,</div><div class="po2">And are come forth out of the fountain of Judah;</div><div class="po2">Who swear by the name of the LORD,</div><div class="po2">And make mention of the God of Israel,</div><div class="po2">But not in truth, nor in righteousness.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For they call themselves of the holy city,</div><div class="po2">And stay themselves upon the God of Israel,</div><div class="po2">The LORD of hosts is His name.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I have declared the former things from of old;</div><div class="po2">Yea, they went forth out of My mouth, and I announced them;</div><div class="po2">Suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Because I knew that thou art obstinate,</div><div class="po2">And thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Therefore I have declared it to thee from of old;</div><div class="po2">Before it came to pass I announced it to thee;</div><div class="po2">Lest thou shouldest say: ‘Mine idol hath done them,</div><div class="po2">And my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Thou hast heard, see, all this;</div><div class="po2">And ye, will ye not declare it?</div><div class="po2">I have announced unto thee new things from this time,</div><div class="po2">Even hidden things, which thou hast not known.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They are created now, and not from of old,</div><div class="po2">And before this day thou heardest them not;</div><div class="po2">Lest thou shouldest say: ‘Behold, I knew them.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Yea, thou heardest not;</div><div class="po2">Yea, thou knewest not;</div><div class="po2">Yea, from of old thine ear was not opened;</div><div class="po2">For I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously,</div><div class="po2">And wast called a transgressor from the womb.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For My name’s sake will I defer Mine anger,</div><div class="po2">And for My praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver;</div><div class="po2">I have tried thee in the furnace of affliction.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For Mine own sake, for Mine own sake, will I do it;</div><div class="po2">For how should it be profaned?</div><div class="po2">And My glory will I not give to another.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Hearken unto Me, O Jacob,</div><div class="po2">And Israel My called:</div><div class="po2">I am He; I am the first,</div><div class="po2">I also am the last.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Yea, My hand hath laid the foundation of the earth,</div><div class="po2">And My right hand hath spread out the heavens;</div><div class="po2">When I call unto them,</div><div class="po2">They stand up together.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Assemble yourselves, all ye, and hear;</div><div class="po2">Which among them hath declared these things?</div><div class="po2">He whom the LORD loveth shall perform His pleasure on Babylon,</div><div class="po2">And show His arm on the Chaldeans.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I, even I, have spoken, yea, I have called him;</div><div class="po2">I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Come ye near unto Me, hear ye this:</div><div class="po2">From the beginning I have not spoken in secret;</div><div class="po2">From the time that it was, there am I;</div><div class="po2">And now the Lord GOD hath sent me, and His spirit.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer,</div><div class="po2">The Holy One of Israel:</div><div class="po2">I am the LORD thy God,</div><div class="po2">Who teacheth thee for thy profit,</div><div class="po2">Who leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Oh that thou wouldest hearken to My commandments!</div><div class="po2">Then would thy peace be as a river,</div><div class="po2">And thy righteousness as the waves of the sea;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Thy seed also would be as the sand,</div><div class="po2">And the offspring of thy body like the grains thereof;</div><div class="po2">His name would not be cut off</div><div class="po2">Nor destroyed from before Me.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Go ye forth from Babylon,</div><div class="po2">Flee ye from the Chaldeans;</div><div class="po2">With a voice of singing</div><div class="po2">Declare ye, tell this,</div><div class="po2">Utter it even to the end of the earth;</div><div class="po2">Say ye: ‘The LORD hath redeemed His servant Jacob.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And they thirsted not</div><div class="po2">When He led them through the deserts;</div><div class="po2">He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them;</div><div class="po2">He cleaved the rock also, and the waters gushed out.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>There is no peace,</div><div 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