Isaiah 48:12-22 - Yahweh Frees Israel

¹² “Listen to Me, Jacob,
and Israel, the one called by Me:
I am He; I am the first,
I am also the last.
¹³ My own hand founded the earth,
and My right hand spread out the heavens;
when I summoned them,
they stood up together.
¹⁴ All of you, assemble and listen!
Who among the idols has declared these things?
The Lord loves him;
he will accomplish His will against Babylon,
and His arm will be against the Chaldeans.
¹⁵ I—I have spoken;
yes, I have called him;
I have brought him,
and he will succeed in his mission.
¹⁶ Approach Me and listen to this.
From the beginning I have not spoken in secret;
from the time anything existed, I was there.”
And now the Lord God
has sent me and His Spirit.

¹⁷ This is what the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says:

I am Yahweh your God,
who teaches you for your benefit,
who leads you in the way you should go.
¹⁸ If only you had paid attention to My commands.
Then your peace would have been like a river,
and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
¹⁹ Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand,
and the offspring of your body like its grains;
their name would not be cut off
or eliminated from My presence.

²⁰ Leave Babylon,
flee from the Chaldeans!
Declare with a shout of joy,
proclaim this,
let it go out to the end of the earth;
announce,
“The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob!”
²¹ They did not thirst
when He led them through the deserts;
He made water flow for them from the rock;
He split the rock, and water gushed out.
²² “There is no peace for the wicked,” says the Lord.