Isaiah, starting at chapter 46
{46:1} Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols are on the animals,
and on the cattle: the things that you carried about are made a load,
a burden to the weary [animal]. {46:2} They stoop, they bow down
together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone
into captivity. {46:3} Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the
remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from
their birth, that have been carried from the womb; {46:4} and even to
old age I am he, and even to gray hairs will I carry you. I have made,
and I will bear; yes, I will carry, and will deliver. {46:5} To whom
will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be
like? {46:6} Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the
balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall
down--yes, they worship. {46:7} They bear it on the shoulder, they
carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands, from its place it
shall not move: yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer, nor
save him out of his trouble. {46:8} Remember this, and show yourselves
men; bring it again to mind, you transgressors. {46:9} Remember the
former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; [I am]
God, and there is none like me; {46:10} declaring the end from the
beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done;
saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure; {46:11}
calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a
far country; yes, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have
purposed, I will also do it. {46:12} Listen to me, you stout-hearted,
who are far from righteousness: {46:13} I bring near my righteousness,
it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not wait; and I will
place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
{47:1} Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon;
sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans: for you
shall no more be called tender and delicate. {47:2} Take the
millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train,
uncover the leg, pass through the rivers. {47:3} Your nakedness shall
be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance,
and will spare no man. {47:4} Our Redeemer, Yahweh of hosts is his
name, the Holy One of Israel. {47:5} Sit you silent, and get you into
darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called
The mistress of kingdoms. {47:6} I was angry with my people, I
profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand: you did show
them no mercy; on the aged have you very heavily laid your yoke.
{47:7} You said, I shall be mistress forever; so that you did not lay
these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end of it.
{47:8} Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who
sit securely, who say in your heart, I am, and there is none else
besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss
of children: {47:9} but these two things shall come to you in a moment
in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure
shall they come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the
great abundance of your enchantments. {47:10} For you have trusted in
your wickedness; you have said, None sees me; your wisdom and your
knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, I
am, and there is none else besides me. {47:11} Therefore shall evil
come on you; you shall not know the dawning of it: and mischief shall
fall on you; you shall not be able to put it away: and desolation
shall come on you suddenly, which you don't know. {47:12} Stand now
with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in
which you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to
profit, if so be you may prevail. {47:13} You are wearied in the
multitude of your counsels: let now the astrologers, the star-gazers,
the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from the things
that shall come on you. {47:14} Behold, they shall be as stubble; the
fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power
of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit
before. {47:15} Thus shall the things be to you in which you have
labored: those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall
wander everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you.
{48:1} Hear you this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name of
Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by
the name of Yahweh, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in
truth, nor in righteousness {48:2} (for they call themselves of the
holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies
is his name): {48:3} I have declared the former things from of old;
yes, they went forth out of my mouth, and I shown them: suddenly I did
them, and they happened. {48:4} Because I knew that you are obstinate,
and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass; {48:5} therefore
I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I shown
it you; lest you should say, My idol has done them, and my engraved
image, and my molten image, has commanded them. {48:6} You have heard
it; see all this; and you, will you not declare it? I have shown you
new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not
known. {48:7} They are created now, and not from of old; and before
this day you didn't hear them; lest you should say, Behold, I knew
them. {48:8} Yes, you didn't hear; yes, you didn't know; yes, from of
old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you did deal very
treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb. {48:9} For
my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain
for you, that I not cut you off. {48:10} Behold, I have refined you,
but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
{48:11} For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it; for how should
[my name] be profaned? and my glory I will not give to another.
{48:12} Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the
first, I also am the last. {48:13} Yes, 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. {48:14} Assemble
yourselves, all you, and hear; who among them has declared these
things? He whom Yahweh loves shall perform his pleasure on Babylon,
and his arm [shall be on] the Chaldeans. {48:15} I, even I, have
spoken; yes, I have called him; I have brought him, and he shall make
his way prosperous. {48:16} Come you near to me, hear you this; from
the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was,
there am I: and now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, and his Spirit.
{48:17} Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am
Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way
that you should go. {48:18} Oh that you had listened to my
commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your
righteousness as the waves of the sea: {48:19} your seed also had been
as the sand, and the offspring of your loins like the grains of it:
his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me. {48:20} Go
you forth from Babylon, flee you from the Chaldeans; with a voice of
singing declare you, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth:
say you, Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob. {48:21} They didn't
thirst when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to
flow out of the rock for them; he split the rock also, and the waters
gushed out. {48:22} There is no peace, says Yahweh, to the wicked.
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