Isaiah 48

1“Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness—Cross-references: Gen 32:28 · Gen 35:10 · Ex 23:13 · Lev 19:12 · Num 24:7 · Deut 5:28 · +33 more

2for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name.Cross-references: Judg 17:13 · 1Sam 4:3 · Neh 11:1 · Neh 11:18 · Ps 48:1 · Ps 87:3 · +17 more

3I have declared the former things from of old. Yes, they went out of my mouth, and I revealed them. I did them suddenly, and they happened.Cross-references: Josh 21:45 · Josh 23:14 · Isa 10:12 · Isa 10:33 · Isa 37:7 · Isa 37:29 · +7 more

4Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;Cross-references: Ex 32:9 · Ex 33:3 · Ex 33:5 · Deut 10:16 · Deut 31:27 · 2Ki 17:14 · +18 more

5therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I showed it to you; lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them. My engraved image and my molten image has commanded them.’Cross-references: Isa 42:8 · Isa 44:7 · Isa 46:10 · Isa 48:3 · Jer 44:15 · Luke 1:70 · +1 more

6You have heard it. Now see all this. And you, won’t you declare it? “I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.Cross-references: Ps 40:9 · Ps 71:15 · Ps 78:3 · Ps 107:43 · Ps 119:13 · Ps 145:4 · +19 more

7They are created now, and not from of old. Before today, you didn’t hear them, lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’

8Yes, you didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.Cross-references: Deut 9:7 · Ps 40:6 · Ps 51:5 · Ps 58:3 · Ps 139:1 · Isa 6:9 · +19 more

9For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger, and for my praise, I hold it back for you so that I don’t cut you off.Cross-references: Josh 7:9 · 1Sam 12:22 · Neh 9:30 · Ps 25:11 · Ps 78:38 · Ps 79:9 · +14 more

10Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.Cross-references: Deut 4:20 · 1Ki 8:51 · Job 23:10 · Ps 66:10 · Prov 17:3 · Isa 1:25 · +9 more

11For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it; for how would my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another.Cross-references: Num 14:15 · Deut 32:26 · 1Sam 12:22 · Isa 37:35 · Isa 42:8 · Isa 43:25 · +10 more

12“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.Cross-references: Deut 32:39 · Prov 7:24 · Prov 8:32 · Isa 34:1 · Isa 41:4 · Isa 43:11 · +18 more

13Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. when I call to them, they stand up together.Cross-references: Ex 20:11 · Job 37:18 · Ps 102:25 · Ps 119:89 · Ps 147:4 · Ps 148:5 · +6 more

14“Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear! Who among them has declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves will do what he likes to Babylon, and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.Cross-references: Isa 13:4 · Isa 13:17 · Isa 41:22 · Isa 43:9 · Isa 44:7 · Isa 44:28 · +5 more

15I, even I, have spoken. Yes, I have called him. I have brought him and he shall make his way prosperous.Cross-references: Josh 1:8 · Ps 45:4 · Isa 45:1 · Ezek 1:2

16“Come near to me and hear this: “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there.” Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me with his Spirit.Cross-references: Isa 11:1 · Isa 41:1 · Isa 45:19 · Isa 48:3 · Isa 61:1 · Zech 2:8 · +4 more

17Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.Cross-references: Deut 8:17 · 1Ki 8:36 · Job 22:21 · Job 36:22 · Ps 25:8 · Ps 25:12 · +18 more

18Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.Cross-references: Deut 5:29 · Deut 32:29 · Ps 36:8 · Ps 81:13 · Ps 119:165 · Isa 32:15 · +6 more

19Your offspring also would have been as the sand and the descendants of your body like its grains. His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.”Cross-references: Gen 13:16 · Gen 22:17 · Josh 7:9 · Ruth 4:10 · 1Ki 9:7 · Ps 9:5 · +11 more

20Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With the sound of joyful shouting announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth; say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”Cross-references: Ex 15:1 · Ex 19:4 · 2Sam 7:23 · Ps 126:1 · Isa 12:1 · Isa 26:1 · +17 more

21They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts. He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them. He also split the rock and the waters gushed out.Cross-references: Ex 17:6 · Num 20:11 · Neh 9:15 · Ps 78:15 · Ps 78:20 · Ps 105:41 · +6 more

22“There is no peace”, says Yahweh, “for the wicked.”Cross-references: Job 15:20 · Isa 57:21 · Luke 19:42 · Rom 3:17