WEBVTT 00:00.800 --> 00:01.880 Chapter 48. 00:02.700 --> 00:06.500 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, 00:06.860 --> 00:11.420 and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the 00:11.420 --> 00:15.860 Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth nor in 00:15.860 --> 00:16.260 righteousness. 00:16.940 --> 00:21.600 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of 00:21.600 --> 00:21.960 Israel. 00:22.880 --> 00:25.280 The Lord of hosts is his name. 00:25.980 --> 00:30.500 I have declared the former things from the beginning, and they went forth out of my 00:30.500 --> 00:32.300 mouth, and I showed them. 00:32.720 --> 00:35.280 I did them suddenly, and they came to pass. 00:35.740 --> 00:40.280 Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, 00:40.640 --> 00:42.000 and thy brow brass. 00:42.540 --> 00:47.320 I have even from the beginning declared it to thee, before it came to pass, 00:47.660 --> 00:54.140 I showed it thee, lest thou shouldst say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven 00:54.140 --> 00:57.160 image, and my molten image hath commanded them. 00:58.380 --> 01:02.020 Thou hast heard, see all this, and will not ye declare it? 01:02.680 --> 01:08.320 I have showed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst 01:08.320 --> 01:09.060 not know them. 01:09.460 --> 01:14.320 They are created now, and not from the beginning, even before the day when thou 01:14.320 --> 01:19.280 heardest them not, lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them. 01:19.980 --> 01:25.880 Yea, thou heardest not, yea, thou knewest not, yea, from that time, that thine ear 01:25.880 --> 01:26.760 was not opened. 01:27.400 --> 01:32.040 For I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a 01:32.040 --> 01:33.780 transgressor from the womb. 01:34.220 --> 01:38.980 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain 01:38.980 --> 01:41.120 for thee, that I cut thee not off. 01:41.880 --> 01:45.000 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver. 01:45.620 --> 01:47.920 I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. 01:48.520 --> 01:52.880 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it. 01:53.580 --> 01:55.280 For how should my name be polluted? 01:55.280 --> 01:58.280 And I will not give my glory unto another. 01:59.240 --> 02:01.900 Hearken unto me, O Jacob, and Israel, my called. 02:02.760 --> 02:07.380 I am he, I am the first, I also am the last. 02:08.020 --> 02:13.680 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned 02:13.680 --> 02:14.220 the heavens. 02:14.760 --> 02:17.540 When I call unto them, they stand up together. 02:18.840 --> 02:21.180 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear. 02:21.960 --> 02:24.280 Which among them hath declared these things? 02:24.280 --> 02:29.800 The Lord hath loved him, he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be 02:29.800 --> 02:30.700 on the Chaldeans. 02:31.320 --> 02:33.620 I, even I, have spoken. 02:34.460 --> 02:39.320 Yea, I have called him, I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous. 02:40.660 --> 02:43.260 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this. 02:43.840 --> 02:46.300 I have not spoken in secret from the beginning. 02:47.000 --> 02:49.760 From the time that it was, there am I. 02:49.760 --> 02:53.940 And now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me. 02:55.000 --> 02:58.300 Thus saith the Lord thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. 02:58.960 --> 03:04.340 I am the Lord thy God, which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way 03:04.340 --> 03:05.480 that thou shouldest go. 03:06.260 --> 03:08.680 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! 03:09.440 --> 03:13.900 Then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the 03:13.900 --> 03:14.200 sea. 03:14.720 --> 03:20.160 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the 03:20.160 --> 03:21.100 gravel thereof. 03:21.600 --> 03:24.720 His name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me. 03:26.200 --> 03:27.620 Go ye forth of Babylon. 03:28.460 --> 03:29.920 Flee ye from the Chaldeans. 03:30.240 --> 03:35.760 With a voice of singing declare ye, Tell this, utter it even to the end of the 03:35.760 --> 03:35.960 earth. 03:36.120 --> 03:39.480 Say ye, The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob. 03:40.200 --> 03:43.080 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts. 03:43.300 --> 03:46.160 He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them. 03:46.160 --> 03:50.520 He claved the rock also, and the waters gushed out. 03:51.000 --> 03:54.720 There is no peace, saith the Lord unto the wicked.