1 ¶ Hear this, O house of Jacob, you call yourself by the name of Israel, and have come from the fountain of Judah, you swear by the name of the LORD, and confess the God of Israel, but not in truth, or in righteousness.

2 For you say that you are of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; whose name is The LORD of hosts.

3 Long ago I predicted the things that have already happened; my mouth proclaimed them, and I announced them; then suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.

4 Because I knew that you are stubborn, your neck is like sinews of iron, and your forehead brass;

5 So I told you about it long ago; I revealed it to you before it happened: so you could not say, My idol did these things, and my graven image, and my molten image, ordered them to happen.

6 You have heard it, and realize all of it; but you will not admit it? From now on I will tell you new things, things hidden from you, that you did not know.

7 Things created now, and not long ago; you have not heard them before today; so you cannot say, I already knew about them.

8 You have never heard; you have never known; yea, for a long time your ears were not open: for I knew that you would deal very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

9 ¶ For my name’s sake I defer my anger, and for my glory I will restrain it for you, and not destroy you.

10 But I will refine you, but not as silver; I will choose you and test you in the furnace of affliction.

11 I will do this for my own sake, and for my own sake alone: for why should I permit my name to be polluted? I will not give my glory to another.

12 Listen to me, O Jacob and Israel, whom I called; I am he; I am the first, I am also the last.

13 My hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call them, they stand forth together.

14 Assemble yourselves, all of you, and listen; is there anyone among them who has foretold these things? The man whom the LORD has loved: will do what he wants him to do to Babylon, and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.

15 I, even I, have foretold it, I have called him: I will bring him, and cause what he does to prosper.

16 ¶ Come near to me, listen to this; From the beginning I have not said anything in secret; from the time that it was, there I am: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, has sent me.

17 The LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says; I am the LORD your God who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way that you should go.

18 O 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 Then your descendants would have been as the sand, and the children coming from you like its grains; their name would not be cut off or wiped out before me.

20 Leave Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans, shout with joy as you tell the news, proclaim it even to the end of the earth; say, The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob.

21 They were not thirsty when he led them through the deserts: he made water flow out of a rock for them: he opened a rock, and the waters gushed out.

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