Isaiah 48

1 to hear: hear this house: household Jacob [the] to call: call by in/on/with name Israel and from water Judah to come out: come [the] to swear in/on/with name LORD and in/on/with God Israel to remember not in/on/with truth: true and not in/on/with righteousness

"Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness

2 for from city [the] holiness to call: call by and upon God Israel to support LORD Hosts name his

(for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; the LORD of hosts is his name):

3 [the] first: previous from the past to tell and from lip my to come out: speak and to hear: proclaim them suddenly to make: do and to come (in): come

I have declared the former things from of old; yes, they went forth out of my mouth, and I caused them to hear it. Suddenly I did them, and they happened.

4 from to know I for severe you(m. s.) and sinew iron neck your and forehead your bronze

Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;

5 and to tell to/for you from the past in/on/with before to come (in): come to hear: proclaim you lest to say idol my to make: do them and idol my and drink offering my to command them

therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I showed it to you; lest you should say, 'My idol has done them, and my engraved image, and my molten image, has commanded them.'

6 to hear: hear to see all her and you(m. p.) not to tell to hear: proclaim you new from now and to watch and not to know them

You have heard it; see all this; and you, will you not declare it? "I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.

7 now to create and not from the past and to/for face: before day and not to hear: hear them lest to say behold to know them

They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day you did not hear them; lest you should say, 'Look, I knew them.'

8 also not to hear: hear also not to know also from the past not to open ear your for to know to act treacherously to act treacherously and to transgress from belly: womb to call: call by to/for you

Yes, you did not hear; yes, you did not know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb.

9 because name my to prolong face: anger my and praise my to restrain to/for you to/for lest to cut: eliminate you

For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for you, that I not cut you off.

10 behold to refine you and not in/on/with silver: money to choose you in/on/with furnace affliction

Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

11 because me because me to make: do for how? to profane/begin: profane and glory my to/for another not to give: give

For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it; for how should my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another.

12 to hear: hear to(wards) me Jacob and Israel to call: call to my I he/she/it I first also I last

"Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

13 also hand: power my to found land: country/planet and right my to extend heaven to call: call to I to(wards) them to stand: stand together

Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.

14 to gather all your and to hear: hear who? in/on/with them to tell [obj] these LORD to love: lover him to make: do pleasure his in/on/with Babylon and arm his Chaldea

"Let all of them assemble and hear; who among them has declared these things? He whom the LORD loves shall perform his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

15 I I to speak: speak also to call: call to him to come (in): bring him and to prosper way: journey his

I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him; I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

16 to present: come to(wards) me to hear: hear this not from head: first in/on/with secrecy to speak: speak from time to be she there I and now Lord YHWH/God to send: depart me and spirit his

"Come near to me and hear this: "From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I." Now the LORD has sent me, with his Ruach.

17 thus to say LORD to redeem: redeem your holy Israel I LORD God your to learn: teach you to/for to gain to tread you in/on/with way: conduct to go: went

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 by the way that you should go.

18 if to listen to/for commandment my and to be like/as river peace your and righteousness your like/as heap: wave [the] sea

But would that you had listened to my commandments. Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

19 and to be like/as sand seed: children your and offspring belly your like/as grain his not to cut: eliminate and not to destroy name his from to/for face: before my

Your descendants would have been as the sand, and the offspring of your body like its grains; his name not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

20 to come out: come from Babylon to flee from Chaldea in/on/with voice cry to tell to hear: proclaim this to come out: send her till end [the] land: country/planet to say to redeem: redeem LORD servant/slave his Jacob

Go forth from Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans; with a voice of singing declare, tell this, send it out throughout the earth. Say, 'The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob.'

21 and not to thirst in/on/with desolation to go: take them water from rock to flow to/for them and to break up/open rock and to flow: flowing water

They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

22 nothing peace to say LORD to/for wicked

"There is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked."