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Book of Isaiah, Chapter 48

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Isaiah 48 RSV - Revised Standard VersionIsaiah 48 RSV - Revised Standard Version

Chapter 48 of Isaiah—Revised Standard Version (RSV)

  1. ¶ Hear this, O house of Jacob,
    who are called by the name of Israel,
      and who came forth from the loins[a] of Judah;
    who swear by the name of the LORD,
      and confess the God of Israel,
      but not in truth or right.
  2. For they call themselves after the holy city,
      and stay themselves on the God of Israel;
      the LORD of hosts is his name.
  3. ¶ “The former things I declared of old,
      they went forth from my mouth and I made them known;
      then suddenly I did them and they came to pass.
  4. Because I know that you are obstinate,
      and your neck is an iron sinew
      and your forehead brass,
  5. I declared them to you from of old,
      before they came to pass I announced them to you,
    lest you should say, ‘My idol did them,
      my graven image and my molten image commanded them.’
  6. ¶ “You have heard; now see all this;
      and will you not declare it?
    From this time forth I make you hear new things,
      hidden things which you have not known.
  7. They are created now, not long ago;
      before today you have never heard of them,
      lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
  8. You have never heard, you have never known,
      from of old your ear has not been opened.
    For I knew that you would deal very treacherously,
      and that from birth you were called a rebel.
  9. ¶ “For my name’s sake I defer my anger,
      for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you,
      that I may not cut you off.
  10. Behold, I have refined you, but not like[b] silver;
      I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.
  11. For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it,
      for how should my name[c] be profaned?
      My glory I will not give to another.
  12. ¶ “Hearken to me, O Jacob,
      and Israel, whom I called!
    I am He, I am the first,
      and I am the last.
  13. My hand laid the foundation of the earth,
      and my right hand spread out the heavens;
    when I call to them,
      they stand forth together.
  14. ¶ “Assemble, all of you, and hear!
      who among them has declared these things?
    The LORD loves him;
      he shall perform his purpose on Babylon,
      and his arm shall be against the Chalde′ans.
  15. I, even I, have spoken and called him,
      I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.
  16. Draw near to me, hear this:
      from the beginning I have not spoken in secret,
      from the time it came to be I have been there.”
    And now the Lord GOD has sent me and his Spirit.
  17. ¶ 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. O that you had hearkened to my commandments!
      Then your peace would have been like a river,
      and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
  19. your offspring would have been like the sand,
      and your descendants like its grains;
    their name would never be cut off
      or destroyed from before me.”
  20. ¶ Go forth from Babylon, flee from Chalde′a,
      declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it,
    send it forth to the end of the earth;
      say, “The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
  21. They thirsted not when he led them through the deserts;
      he made water flow for them from the rock;
      he cleft the rock and the water gushed out.
  22. “There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Cn: Heb waters
  2. ^ Cn: Heb with
  3. ^ Gk Old Latin: Heb lacks my name

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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