King James Version · full chapter
Isaiah 48
22 verses · King James Version
- 1Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, not in truth, nor in righteousness.Compare translations of Isaiah 48:1
- 2For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts his name.Compare translations of Isaiah 48:2
- 3I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did suddenly, and they came to pass.Compare translations of Isaiah 48:3
- 4Because I knew that thou obstinate, and thy neck an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;Compare translations of Isaiah 48:4
- 5I have even from the beginning declared to thee; before it came to pass I shewed thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.Compare translations of Isaiah 48:5
- 6Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.Compare translations of Isaiah 48:6
- 7They 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.Compare translations of Isaiah 48:7
- 8Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.Compare translations of Isaiah 48:8
- 9For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.Compare translations of Isaiah 48:9
- 10Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.Compare translations of Isaiah 48:10
- 11For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do for how should be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.Compare translations of Isaiah 48:11
- 12Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I he; I the first, I also the last.Compare translations of Isaiah 48:12
- 13Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: I call unto them, they stand up together.Compare translations of Isaiah 48:13
- 14All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm the Chaldeans.Compare translations of Isaiah 48:14
- 15I, I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.Compare translations of Isaiah 48:15
- 16Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.Compare translations of Isaiah 48:16
- 17Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way thou shouldest go.Compare translations of Isaiah 48:17
- 18O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:Compare translations of Isaiah 48:18
- 19Thy 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.Compare translations of Isaiah 48:19
- 20Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.Compare translations of Isaiah 48:20
- 21And they thirsted not 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.Compare translations of Isaiah 48:21
- 22no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.Compare translations of Isaiah 48:22