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¹ Hear this, O house of Jacob,
    ^(a)who are called by the name of Israel,
    and ^(b)who came from the waters of Judah,
^(c)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,
    ^(d)and stay themselves on the God of Israel;
    the Lord of hosts is his name.

³ "The former things ^(e)I declared of old;
    they went out from my mouth, and I announced them;
    then suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.
⁴ Because I know that ^(f)you are obstinate,
    and your neck is an iron sinew
    and your forehead brass,
^5 (g)I declared them to you from of old,
    before they came to pass I announced them to you,
lest you should say, ^(h)‘My idol did them,
    my carved image and my metal image commanded them.'

⁶ "You have heard; now see all this;
    and will you not declare it?
From this time forth ⁽ⁱ⁾I announce to you new things,
    hidden things that 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 surely deal treacherously,
    and that ^(j)from before birth you were called a rebel.

^9 (k)"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, ^(l)but not as silver;
    ^(m)I have tried^[a] you in the furnace of affliction.
^11 (n)For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it,
    for how should my name^[b] be profaned?
    ^(o)My glory I will not give to another.

¹² "Listen to me, O Jacob,
    and Israel, whom I called!
I am he; ^(p)I am the first,
    and I am the last.
¹³ My hand ^(q)laid the foundation of the earth,
    and my right hand ^(r)spread out the heavens;
^(s)when I call to them,
    they stand forth together.

¹⁴ "Assemble, all of you, and listen!
    ^(t)Who among them has declared these things?
The Lord loves him;
    ^(u)he shall perform his purpose on Babylon,
    and his arm shall be against ^(v)the Chaldeans.
^15 (w)I, even I, have spoken and called him;
    I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.
^16 (x)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 ^(y)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 (z)Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments!
    ^(aa)Then your peace would have been like a river,
    and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
^19 (ab)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 (ac)Go out from Babylon, flee from ^(ad)Chaldea,
    declare this ^(ae)with a shout of joy, proclaim it,
send it out to the end of the earth;
    say, ^(af)"The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!"
^21 (ag)They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts;
    ^(ah)he made water flow for them from the rock;
    he split the rock and the water gushed out.

^22 (ai)"There is no peace," says the Lord, "for the wicked."