Isaiah 48:12-22 - Yahweh Frees Israel

¹² Hearken unto me O Jacob, and Israel whom I have called. I am even he that is, I am the first and the last. ¹³ My hand is the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spanneth over the heavens. As soon as I called them they were there. ¹⁴ Gather you all together, and hearken: Which of yonder gods hath declared this? The LORD God hath a love unto him, and he shall perform his will against Babel and declare his power against the Chaldeans. ¹⁵ I myself alone have told you this before. Yea, I shall call him and bring him forth, and give him a prosperous journey. ¹⁶ Come nigh and hear this: have I spoken anything darkly since the beginning? When a thing beginneth, I am there. Wherefore the LORD God with his spirit hath sent me;

¹⁷ And thus sayeth the LORD God thine avenger, the holy one of Israel: I am the LORD thy God, which teach thee profitable things, and lead thee the way, that thou shouldest go. ¹⁸ If thou wilt now regard my commandment, thy wealthiness shall be as the water stream: and thy righteousness as the waves flowing in the sea. ¹⁹ Thy seed shall be like as the sand in the sea, and the fruit of thy body, like the gravel stones thereof: Thy name shall not be rooted out, nor destroyed before me.

²⁰ Ye shall go away from Babylon, and escape the Chaldeans with a merry voice. This shall be spoken of, declared abroad, and go forth unto the end of the world: so that it shall be said, "The LORD hath defended his servant Jacob, ²¹ that they suffered no thirst, when they travailed in the wilderness. He clave the rocks asunder, and the water gushed out." ²² As for the ungodly, they have no peace, sayeth the LORD.