English Bible Presentation Sharing - Isaiah Book, chapter 48, verse 1 in Litv Version

Isaiah 48 : 1 (LITV)

Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out from the waters of Judah, who swear by Jehovah's name and profess by the God of Israel, not in truth or in righteousness.

Isaiah 48 : 2 (LITV)

For they are called of the holy city, and rest themselves on the God of Israel; Jehovah of Hosts is His name.

Isaiah 48 : 3 (LITV)

I have declared the former things from then; and they went out of My mouth; and I made them hear; suddenly I acted, and they came about.

Isaiah 48 : 4 (LITV)

Because I knew that you are hard, and your neck is a sinew of iron, and your brow bronze.

Isaiah 48 : 5 (LITV)

And I declared to you from then; before it came I made you hear, lest you should say, My idol did them; and my image and my casted image commanded them.

Isaiah 48 : 6 (LITV)

You heard; see it all; and will you not declare? I made you hear new things from now, even hidden things, and you did not know them.

Isaiah 48 : 7 (LITV)

They are created now, and not from then; even before today, but you did not hear them; lest you should say, See, I knew them.

Isaiah 48 : 8 (LITV)

Yea, you did not hear; yea, you did not know; yea, from then your ear was not opened; for I know that betraying you will betray and revolt from the womb; it was called to you.

Isaiah 48 : 9 (LITV)

For My name's sake I will put off My anger; and for My praise I will hold back for you, so as not to cut you off.

Isaiah 48 : 10 (LITV)

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

Isaiah 48 : 11 (LITV)

For My sake, for My sake, I will act; for how is it defiled? And I will not give My glory to another.

Isaiah 48 : 12 (LITV)

Listen to Me, O Jacob, and Israel My called: I am He; I am the First; surely I am the Last.

Isaiah 48 : 13 (LITV)

My hand surely founded earth, and My right hand has stretched out the heavens; I called to them, they stood up together.

Isaiah 48 : 14 (LITV)

All of you gather and hear: Who among them has declared these things? Jehovah has loved him. He will do His pleasure on Babylon; yea, His arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

Isaiah 48 : 15 (LITV)

I, I have spoken; yea, I have called him, I brought him, and he causes his way to prosper.

Isaiah 48 : 16 (LITV)

Come near to Me; hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning. From its being, I was there; and now the Lord Jehovah, and His Spirit, has sent Me.

Isaiah 48 : 17 (LITV)

So says Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, I am Jehovah your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.

Isaiah 48 : 18 (LITV)

Oh that you had listened to My commands! Then your peace would have been like the river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Isaiah 48 : 19 (LITV)

And your seed would have been like the sand, and your offspring of your bowels like its grain; his name would not have been cut off nor destroyed from My presence.

Isaiah 48 : 20 (LITV)

Go out of Babylon; flee from the Chaldeans. Tell this with the voice of rejoicing; let this be heard, let it go out to the end of the earth; say, Jehovah has redeemed His servant Jacob.

Isaiah 48 : 21 (LITV)

And they did not thirst; He led them in the deserts; He made waters flow out of rock for them. And He cut open the rock and the water gushed out.

Isaiah 48 : 22 (LITV)

There is no peace, says Jehovah, to the wicked.