Isaiah 48 — Legacy Standard Bible

My Glory I Will Not Give to Another

48“^aHear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name IsraelAnd who came forth from the ¹^,^bloins of Judah,Who ^cswear by the name of YahwehAnd bring to remembrance the God of Israel,But not in truth or in ^drighteousness.²“For they call themselves after the ^aholy cityAnd ^bare supported by the God of Israel;Yahweh of hosts is His name.³“I ^adeclared the former things long ago,And they went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to be heard.^bSuddenly I acted, and they ^ccame to pass.⁴“Because I know that you are ¹^,^astiff,And your ^bneck is an iron sinewAnd your ^cforehead bronze,⁵Therefore I declared them to you long ago,Before ¹they happened I caused them to be heard by you,Lest you say, ‘My ^aidol has done them,And my graven image and my molten image have commanded them.’⁶“You have heard; look at all this.And you, will you not declare it?I caused you to hear ^anew things from this time,Even hidden things which you have not known.⁷“They are created now and not long ago;And before today you have not heard them,Lest you say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’⁸“Indeed, you have not ^aheard; indeed, you have not known.Indeed, even from long ago your ear has not been openBecause I knew that you would deal very treacherously;And you have been called a ¹^,^btransgressor from the ²womb.⁹“^aFor the sake of My name I ^bdelay My anger,And for My praise I restrain it for you,In order not to cut you off.¹⁰“Behold, I have refined you, but ^anot as silver;I have tested you in the ^bfurnace of affliction.¹¹“^aFor My own sake, for My own sake, I will act;For how can My name be profaned?And My ^bglory I will not give to another.

Yahweh Redeems Jacob

¹²“Hear Me, O Jacob, even Israel ¹whom I called;^aI am He, ^bI am the first, I am also the last.¹³“Also, My hand ^afounded the earth,And My right hand spread out the heavens;When I ^bcall to them, they stand together.¹⁴“^aAssemble, all of you, and hear!^bWho among them has declared these things?Yahweh loves him; he will ^ccarry out His good pleasure on ^dBabylon,And His arm will be against the Chaldeans.¹⁵“I, even I, have spoken; indeed I have ^acalled him,I have brought him, and He will make his ways successful.¹⁶“^aDraw near to Me, hear this:From the first I have ^bnot spoken in secret,^cFrom the time it took place, I was there.So now ^dLord Yahweh has sent Me, and His Spirit.”

¹⁷Thus says Yahweh, your ^aRedeemer, the Holy One of Israel, “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit,Who ^bleads you in the way you should go.

¹⁸“If only you had ^apaid attention to My commandments!Then your ^bpeace would have been like a river,And your ^crighteousness like the waves of the sea.¹⁹“Your ^aseed would have been like the sand,And the offspring from your loins like its grains;^bTheir name would never be cut off or destroyed from My presence.”²⁰^aGo forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans!Declare with the sound of ^bjoyful shouting, cause this to be heard,^cBring it forth to the end of the earth;Say, “^dYahweh has redeemed His servant Jacob.”²¹And they did not ^athirst when He led them through the waste places.He ^bmade the water flow out of the rock for them;He split the rock, and ^cthe water gushed forth.²²“^aThere is no peace for the wicked,” says Yahweh.