Isaiah 48:12-22 - Yahweh Frees Israel

¹² "Listen to me, Jacob, and Israel, {whom I called}: I [am] he. I [am the] first; also I [am the] last. ¹³ Indeed, my hand founded [the] earth, and my right hand spread out [the] heavens; [when] I summon them, they stand in position together. ¹⁴ Assemble, all of you, and hear! Who among them declared these [things]? Yahweh loves him; he shall perform his wish against Babylon and his arm [against] {the Chaldeans}. ¹⁵ I, I myself, I have spoken! Indeed, I have called him. I have brought him, and he will be successful [in] his way. ¹⁶ Draw near to me; hear this! I have not spoken in secrecy from [the] {beginning}; from [the] time {it came to be}, there I [have been]; And now the Lord Yahweh has sent me and his Spirit."

¹⁷ Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer, the holy one of Israel: "I [am] Yahweh your God, {who teaches} you to profit, leads you in [the] way you should go. ¹⁸ O that you had listened attentively to my commandments! Then your prosperity would have been like river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. ¹⁹ And your offspring would have been like the sand, and the descendants of your {body} like its grains. It would not be cut off, and its name would not be destroyed from my presence."

²⁰ Go out from Babylon! Flee from Chaldea! Proclaim [it] with a shout of rejoicing; proclaim this! {Send it forth} to the end of the earth; say, "Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!" ²¹ And [when] he led them through the deserts, they were not thirsty; he made water flow from [the] rock for them, and he split [the] rock, and [the] water gushed out. ²² "There is no peace," says Yahweh, "for the wicked."