Isaiah 48:12-22 - Yahweh Frees Israel

¹² Hear to me, O Jacob and Israel, my calling; I am he, I the firsts also I the last ¹³ Also my hand will found the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens: -I call to them, they shall stand together. ¹⁴ Assemble, all ye, and hear; who among them announced these things? Jehovah loved him: he will do his delight upon Babel, and his arm upon the Chaldeans ¹⁵ I, I spike; also I called him: I brought him, and his way prospered. ¹⁶ Draw ye near to me, hear this; I spake not in secret in the beginning; from the time of its being, there was I: and now the Lord Jehovah sent me, and his spirit

¹⁷ Thus said Jehovah redeeming thee, the Holy One of Israel: I Jehovah thy God teaching thee to profit, causing thee to tread in a way thou shalt go. ¹⁸ Would thou didst attend to my commands! and thy peace shall be as a river, and thy justice as the billows of the sea. ¹⁹ And thy seed shall be as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels as its bowels; his name shall not be cut off and shall not be destroyed from before me.

²⁰ Go ye forth from Babel; flee from the Chaldeans; with the voice of shouting, announce ye; cause this to be heard; cause it to go forth, even to the extremity o the earth; say ye, Jehovah redeemed his servant Jacob. ²¹ And they thirsted not causing them to go in dry places: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: and he will cleave asunder the rock, and the waters will flow out ²² No peace, said Jehovah, to the unjust