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Suddenly I did <i>them,</i> and they came to pass.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did <i>them</i> suddenly, and they came to pass.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Because I knew that you <i>were</i> obstinate, And your neck <i>was</i> an iron sinew, And your brow bronze,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Because I knew that thou <i>art</i> obstinate, and thy neck <i>is</i> an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Even from the beginning I have declared <i>it</i> to you; Before it came to pass I proclaimed <i>it</i> to you, Lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them, And my carved image and my molded image Have commanded them.’<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I have even from the beginning declared <i>it</i> to thee; before it came to pass I shewed <i>it</i> thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“You have heard; See all this. And will you not declare <i>it?</i> I have made you hear new things from this time, Even hidden things, and you did not know them.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare <i>it</i>? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They are created now and not from the beginning; And before this day you have not heard them, Lest you should say, ‘Of course I knew them.’<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Surely you did not hear, Surely you did not know; Surely from long ago your ear was not opened. For I knew that you would deal very treacherously, And were called a transgressor from the womb.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time <i>that</i> thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“For My name’s sake I will defer My anger, And <i>for</i> My praise I will restrain it from you, So that I do not cut you off.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do <i>it;</i> For how should <i>My name</i> be profaned? And I will not give My glory to another.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For mine own sake, <i>even</i> for mine own sake, will I do <i>it</i>: for how should <i>my name</i> be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“Listen to Me, O Jacob, And Israel, My called: I <i>am</i> He, I <i>am</i> the First, I <i>am</i> also the Last.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I <i>am</i> he; I <i>am</i> the first, I also <i>am</i> the last.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Indeed My hand has laid the foundation of the earth, And My right hand has stretched out the heavens; <i>When</i> I call to them, They stand up together.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: <i>when</i> I call unto them, they stand up together.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear! Who among them has declared these <i>things?</i> The LORD loves him; He shall do His pleasure on Babylon, And His arm <i>shall be against</i> the Chaldeans.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these <i>things</i>? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm <i>shall be on</i> the Chaldeans.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I, <i>even</i> I, have spoken; Yes, I have called him, I have brought him, and his way will prosper.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I, <i>even</i> I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“Come near to Me, hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; From the time that it was, I <i>was</i> there. And now the Lord GOD and His Spirit Have sent Me.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there <i>am</i> I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: “I <i>am</i> the LORD your God, Who teaches you to profit, Who leads you by the way you should go.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I <i>am</i> the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way <i>that</i> thou shouldest go.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Your descendants also would have been like the sand, And the offspring of your body like the grains of sand; His name would not have been cut off Nor destroyed from before Me.”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing, Declare, proclaim this, Utter it to the end of the earth; Say, “The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it <i>even</i> to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And they did not thirst When He led them through the deserts; He caused the waters to flow from the rock for them; He also split the rock, and the waters gushed out.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And they thirsted not <i>when</i> 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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“<i>There</i> <i>is</i> no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/48-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2"><i>There is</i> no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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