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114 lines
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# Isaiah 48 (New King James Version)
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Israel Refined for God's Glory
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##### Chapter 48
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###### 1 "Hear this, O house of Jacob,
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Who are called by the name of Israel,
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And have come forth from the wellsprings of Judah;
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Who swear by the name of the Lord,
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And make mention of the God of Israel,
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_But_ not in truth or in righteousness;
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###### 2 For they call themselves after the holy city,
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And lean on the God of Israel;
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The Lord of hosts _is_ His name:
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###### 3 "I have declared the former things from the beginning;
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They went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to hear it.
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Suddenly I did _them,_ and they came to pass.
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###### 4 Because I knew that you _were_ obstinate,
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And your neck _was_ an iron sinew,
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And your brow bronze,
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###### 5 Even from the beginning I have declared _it_ to you;
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Before it came to pass I proclaimed _it_ to you,
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Lest you should say, 'My idol has done them,
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And my carved image and my molded image
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Have commanded them.'
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###### 6 "You have heard;
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See all this.
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And will you not declare _it?_
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I have made you hear new things from this time,
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Even hidden things, and you did not know them.
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###### 7 They are created now and not from the beginning;
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And before this day you have not heard them,
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Lest you should say, 'Of course I knew them.'
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###### 8 Surely you did not hear,
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Surely you did not know;
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Surely from long ago your ear was not opened.
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For I knew that you would deal very treacherously,
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And were called a transgressor from the womb.
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###### 9 "For My name's sake I will defer My anger,
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And _for_ My praise I will restrain it from you,
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So that I do not cut you off.
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###### 10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver;
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I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
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###### 11 For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do _it;_
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For how should _My name_ be profaned?
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And I will not give My glory to another.God's Ancient Plan to Redeem Israel
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###### 12 "Listen to Me, O Jacob,
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And Israel, My called:
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I _am_ He, I _am_ the First,
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I _am_ also the Last.
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###### 13 Indeed My hand has laid the foundation of the earth,
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And My right hand has stretched out the heavens;
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_When_ I call to them,
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They stand up together.
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###### 14 "All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear!
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Who among them has declared these _things?_
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The Lord loves him;
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He shall do His pleasure on Babylon,
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And His arm _shall be against_ the Chaldeans.
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###### 15 I, _even_ I, have spoken;
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Yes, I have called him,
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I have brought him, and his way will prosper.
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###### 16 "Come near to Me, hear this:
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I have not spoken in secret from the beginning;
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From the time that it was, I _was_ there.
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And now the Lord God and His Spirit
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Have sent Me."
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###### 17 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer,
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The Holy One of Israel:
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"I _am_ the Lord your God,
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Who teaches you to profit,
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Who leads you by the way you should go.
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###### 18 Oh, that you had heeded My commandments!
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Then your peace would have been like a river,
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And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
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###### 19 Your descendants also would have been like the sand,
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And the offspring of your body like the grains of sand;
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His name would not have been cut off
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Nor destroyed from before Me."
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###### 20 Go forth from Babylon!
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Flee from the Chaldeans!
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With a voice of singing,
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Declare, proclaim this,
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Utter it to the end of the earth;
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Say, "The Lord has redeemed
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His servant Jacob!"
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###### 21 And they did not thirst
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When He led them through the deserts;
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He caused the waters to flow from the rock for them;
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He also split the rock, and the waters gushed out.
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###### 22 "_There_ _is_ no peace," says the Lord, "for the wicked."
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