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Isaiah 48

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Israel Refined for God’s Glory
1#Ps 68:26; Jer 4:2 Hear this, O house of Jacob,
who are called by the name of Israel,
and have come forth from the waters of Judah;
who swear by the name of the Lord,
and invoke the God of Israel,
but not in truth or in righteousness;
2#Mic 3:11; Isa 10:20 for they call themselves after the holy city,
and lean on the God of Israel;
the Lord of Hosts is His name:
3#Isa 41:22; 42:9 I have declared the former things from the beginning;
and they went forth from My mouth, and I announced them.
Suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.
4#Ex 32:9; Dt 31:27 Because I knew that you are obstinate,
and your neck is an iron sinew,
and your brow bronze;
5#Isa 48:3; Jer 44:15–18 I have even from the beginning declared it to you;
before it came to pass I announced it to you,
lest you should say,
“My idol has done them,
and my carved image and my molded image has commanded them.”
6#Isa 42:9 You have heard; see all this.
And will you not declare it?
I have shown you new things from this time,
even hidden things, and you did not know them.
7They are created now and not from the beginning;
even before the day when you did not hear them,
lest you should say,
“Yes, I knew them.”
8#Ps 58:3 You have not heard, you have not known,
indeed, from long ago your ear has not been open.
For I knew that you would deal very treacherously,
and that from birth you have been called a rebel.
9#Ps 78:38; Ne 9:30–31 For My name’s sake I will defer My anger,
and for My praise I will restrain it for you
so that you are not cut off.
10#Dt 4:20; Jer 9:7 See, I have refined you, but not with silver;
I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
11#Isa 42:8; Eze 20:9 For My own sake, even for My own sake, I will do it;
for how can My name be polluted?
And I will not give My glory to another.
The Lord’s Call to Israel
12#Isa 41:4; Rev 22:13 Listen to Me, O Jacob
and Israel, whom I called:
I am He;
I am the First, and I am the Last.
13#Isa 40:26; Ex 20:11 My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth,
and My right hand has spanned the heavens;
when I call to them,
they stand up together.
14#Isa 43:9; 13:4–5 Assemble, all of you, and listen.
Who among them has declared these things?
The Lord has loved him;
he will do His pleasure on Babylon,
and His arm shall be against the Chaldeans.
15I, even I, have spoken,
and I have called him;
I have brought him,
and his way will prosper.
16#Isa 45:19Come near to Me, hear this:
I have not spoken in secret from the beginning;
from the time that it was, there I am.
And now the Lord God has sent me
and His Spirit.
17#Ps 32:8; Isa 43:14 Thus says the Lord,
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
I am the Lord your God,
who teaches you to profit,
who leads you in the way you should go.
18#Dt 32:29; Isa 66:12 Oh, that you had listened to My commandments!
Then your peace would have been as a river
and your righteousness as the waves of the sea.
19#Ge 22:17; Isa 10:22 Your descendants also would have been as the sand
and your offspring like grains of sand;
their name would not have been cut off
nor destroyed from before Me.
20#Isa 52:9; Jer 50:8; 51:6 Go forth from Babylon!
Flee from the Chaldeans!
With a voice of singing declare,
proclaim this,
utter it even to the ends of the earth;
say, “The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob.”
21#Ex 17:6; Nu 20:11 They did not 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.
22#Isa 57:21 “There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.”

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