Isaiah · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Isaiah 48 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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1 Hear ye these things, O house of Jacob, you that are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Juda, you who swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in justice.
1 “Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness—
2 For they are called of the holy city, and are established upon the God of Israel: the Lord of hosts is his name.
2 for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name.
3 The former things of old I have declared, and they went forth out of my mouth, and I have made them to be heard: I did them suddenly and they came to pass.
3 I have declared the former things from of old. Yes, they went out of my mouth, and I revealed them. I did them suddenly, and they happened.
4 For I knew that thou art stubborn, and thy neck is as an iron sinew, and thy forehead as brass.
4 Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;
5 I foretold thee of old, before they came to pass I told thee, lest thou shouldst say: My idols have done these things, and my graven and molten things have commanded them.
5 therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I showed it to you; lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them. My engraved image and my molten image has commanded them.’
6 See now all the things which thou hast heard: but have you declared them? I have shewn thee new things from that time, and things are kept which thou knowest not:
6 You have heard it. Now see all this. And you, won’t you declare it? “I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.
7 They are created now, and not of old: and before the day, when thou heardest them not, lest thou shouldst say: Behold I knew them.
7 They are created now, and not from of old. Before today, you didn’t hear them, lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
8 Thou hast neither heard, nor known, neither was thy ear opened of old. For I know that transgressing thou wilt transgress, and I have called thee a transgressor from the womb.
8 Yes, you didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.
9 For my name’s sake I will remove my wrath far off: and for my praise I will bridle thee, lest thou shouldst perish.
9 For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger, and for my praise, I hold it back for you so that I don’t cut you off.
10 Behold I have refined thee, but not as silver, I have chosen thee in the furnace of poverty.
10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
11 For my own sake, for my own sake will I do it, that I may not be blasphemed: and I will not give my glory to another.
11 For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it; for how would my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another.
12 Hearken to me, O Jacob, and thou Israel whom I call: I am he, I am the first, and I am the last.
12 “Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.
13 My hand also hath founded the earth, and my right hand hath measured the heavens: I shall call them, and they shall stand together.
13 Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. when I call to them, they stand up together.
14 Assemble yourselves together, all you, and hear: who among them hath declared these things? the Lord hath loved him, he will do his pleasure in Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
14 “Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear! Who among them has declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves will do what he likes to Babylon, and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.
15 I, even I have spoken and called him: I have brought him, and his way is made prosperous.
15 I, even I, have spoken. Yes, I have called him. I have brought him and he shall make his way prosperous.
16 Come ye near unto me, and hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning: from the time before it was done, I was there, and now the Lord God hath sent me, and his spirit.
16 “Come near to me and hear this: “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there.” Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me with his Spirit.
17 Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord thy God that teach thee profitable things, that govern thee in the way that thou walkest.
17 Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace had been as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea,
18 Oh 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 And thy seed had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof: his name should not have perished, nor have been destroyed from before my face.
19 Your offspring also would have been as the sand and the descendants of your body like its grains. His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.”
20 Come forth out of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, declare it with the voice of joy: make this to be heard, and speak it out even to the ends of the earth. Say: The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
20 Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With the sound of joyful shouting announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth; say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
21 They thirsted not in the desert, when he led them out: he brought forth water out of the rock for them, and he clove the rock, and the waters gushed out.
21 They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts. He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them. He also split the rock and the waters gushed out.
22 There is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord.
22 “There is no peace”, says Yahweh, “for the wicked.”
Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 4:2; Psalm 68:26; Isaiah 1:10–14; Jeremiah 5:2; Isaiah 65:16
- 2 Micah 3:11; Isaiah 10:20; Isaiah 52:1; Romans 2:17; Jeremiah 21:2
- 3 Isaiah 42:9; Joshua 21:45; Isaiah 41:22; Isaiah 45:21; Isaiah 44:7–8
- 4 Acts 7:51; Exodus 32:9; Zechariah 7:11–12; Proverbs 29:1; Ezekiel 3:4–9
- 5 Isaiah 48:3; Luke 1:70; Acts 15:18; Jeremiah 44:15–18; Isaiah 46:10
- 6 Revelation 4:1; Isaiah 42:9; Romans 16:25–26; Isaiah 43:19; John 15:15
- 8 Psalm 58:3; Hosea 5:7; John 12:39–40; Malachi 2:11; Jeremiah 6:10
- 9 Psalm 79:9; Psalm 78:38; Isaiah 37:35; Psalm 143:11; Psalm 106:8
- 10 1 Peter 4:12; Proverbs 17:3; Job 23:10; Hebrews 12:10–11; Psalm 66:10
- 11 Isaiah 42:8; Ezekiel 20:9; Ezekiel 20:14; Isaiah 37:35; 1 Samuel 12:22
- 12 Isaiah 41:4; Revelation 1:8; Revelation 22:13; Revelation 17:14; Romans 8:28
- 13 Psalm 102:25; Hebrews 1:10–12; Exodus 20:11; Isaiah 45:18; Isaiah 40:26
- 14 Isaiah 43:9; Jeremiah 50:21–29; Isaiah 13:17–18; Jeremiah 51:20–24; Isaiah 13:4–5
- 15 Joshua 1:8; Isaiah 45:1–2; Psalm 45:4; Ezekiel 1:2
- 16 John 18:20; John 20:21–22; Isaiah 61:1–3; Isaiah 45:19; John 3:34
- 17 Psalm 32:8; Psalm 25:12; Job 22:21–22; Deuteronomy 8:17–18; Isaiah 30:20
- 18 Deuteronomy 5:29; Isaiah 66:12; Psalm 119:165; Psalm 81:13–16; Deuteronomy 32:29
- 19 Isaiah 10:22; Genesis 22:17; Jeremiah 33:22; Hosea 1:10; Romans 9:27
- 20 Jeremiah 51:45; Isaiah 52:9; Jeremiah 50:8; Revelation 18:4; Jeremiah 51:6
- 21 Isaiah 43:19–20; Psalm 105:41; Isaiah 41:17–18; Exodus 17:6; Psalm 78:20
- 22 Isaiah 57:21; Job 15:20–24; Luke 19:42; Romans 3:17
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
And now the Lord God and His Spirit hath sent me." It was Himself who was speaking as the Lord God; and yet we should not have understood that it was Jesus Christ had He not added, "And now the Lord God and His Spirit hath sent me." For He said this with reference to the form of a servant, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
And Isaiah, "The Lord God and His Spirit hath sent me," and "the Spirit came down from the Lord and guided them." And pray do not again understand by this guidance some humble service, for the Word witnesses that it was the work of God;--"Thou leddest thy people," it is said "like a flock," and "Thou that leadest Joseph like …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)
For through the union in subsistence the flesh is said to be deified and to become God and to be equally God with the Word; and God the Word is said to be made flesh, and to become man, and is called creature and last: not in the sense that the two natures are converted into one compound nature …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)
"For I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me; for He will speak peace unto His people." But "There is no peace," saith the Lord, "to the wicked." "I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; because it is Thou that madest me." Was this the reason that thou openedst not thy mouth, "because God made thee"?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
For men are elated by these things, and mad with a kind of joy: but "there is no joy, saith the Lord, unto the wicked." There is a sort of joyfulness which the ear of man hath not heard, nor his eye seen, nor hath it entered into his heart to conceive.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)