Isaiah 48 Free Bible Version
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1 Listen to this, descendants of Jacob, called by the name of Israel, and who come from the lineage of Judah. Listen, you people who swear by the name of the Lord, or who invoke the God of Israel, but not truly or sincerely.
1 OID esto, casa de Jacob, que os llamáis del nombre de Israel, los que salieron de las aguas de Judá, los que juran en el nombre de Jehová, y hacen memoria del Dios de Israel, mas no en verdad ni en justicia:
2 You say you're from the “Holy City,” and claim you're trusting in the God of Israel, whose name is the Lord Almighty.
2 Porque de la santa ciudad se nombran, y en el Dios de Israel confían: su nombre, Jehová de los ejércitos.
3 I predicted long ago what was going to happen—I said it and let people know. Then suddenly I decided to act, and it all came true.
3 Lo que pasó, ya antes lo dije; y de mi boca salió; publiquélo, hícelo presto, y vino á ser.
4 I know how stubborn you are, with necks as unbending as iron and foreheads as hard as bronze.
4 Porque conozco que eres duro, y nervio de hierro tu cerviz, y tu frente de metal,
5 I predicted these things to you long ago, before they happened. I explained them to you so that you couldn't say “My idol did this,” or “My image and my metal god ordered this to happen.”
5 Díjetelo ya días há; antes que viniese te lo enseñé, porque no dijeses: Mi ídolo lo hizo, mis estatuas de escultura y de fundición mandaron estas cosas.
6 You've heard all I predicted, and seen it happen. Won't you admit it? Now I'm going to tell you new things, secrets you don't know anything about.
6 Oístelo, vístelo todo; ¿y no lo anunciaréis vosotros? Ahora pues te he hecho oir nuevas y ocultas cosas que tú no sabías.
7 These are brand-new, not something from the past. Before today you won't have heard anything about them, so you can't say, “Oh yes, I know about that.”
7 Ahora han sido criadas, no en días pasados; ni antes de este día las habías oído, porque no digas: He aquí que yo lo sabía.
8 No, you've never heard that, and you've never known that! Nobody's told you about that before! I know how deviously you operate—you're called “rebels from birth”!
8 Sí, nunca lo habías oído, ni nunca lo habías conocido; ciertamente no se abrió antes tu oreja; porque sabía que desleal habías de desobedecer, por tanto te llamé rebelde desde el vientre.
9 But because of my nature I am delaying my punishment; and because of my reputation, I'm not going to destroy you.
9 Por amor de mi nombre dilataré mi furor, y para alabanza mía te daré largas, para no talarte.
10 Look how I've refined you, but not like silver—I chose you in the furnace of trouble.
10 He aquí te he purificado, y no como á plata; hete escogido en horno de aflicción.
11 The reason I'm doing this is because of who I am, yes, because of my very nature. I won't let my reputation be damaged—I won't let anyone else have it.
11 Por mí, por amor de mí lo haré, para que no sea amancillado [mi nombre], y mi honra no la daré á otro.
12 Listen to me, Jacob, and Israel, the one I called. Only I am God. I am the first, and I am the last.
12 Oyeme, Jacob, y [tú], Israel, llamado de mí: Yo mismo, yo el primero, yo también el postrero.
13 I laid the foundations of the earth with my own hands; I personally spread out the heavens. When I call the stars, they all take their positions.
13 Mi mano fundó también la tierra, y mi mano derecha midió los cielos con el palmo; en llamándolos yo, parecieron juntamente.
14 Everyone gather round and listen. Which of your “gods” told you anything like this? The one the Lord loves will carry out the Lord's wishes against Babylon—he will attack the Babylonians.
14 Juntaos todos vosotros, y oid. ¿Quién hay entre ellos que anuncie estas cosas? Jehová lo amó, el cual ejecutará su voluntad en Babilonia, y su brazo en los Caldeos.
15 I myself have spoken. I have called him to do this, and he will be successful in what he does.
15 Yo, yo hablé, y le llamé, y le traje; por tanto será prosperado su camino.
16 Come close to me, and listen to this. From the very beginning I haven't spoken in secret; I am always there right when it happens. Now the Lord God and his Spirit has sent me to tell you this:
16 Allegaos á mí, oid esto; desde el principio no hablé en escondido; desde que la cosa se hizo, estuve allí: y ahora el Señor Jehová me envió, y su espíritu.
17 This is what the Lord says, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, I am the Lord your God. I am the one who teaches you what is good for you, who leads you along the way you should go.
17 Así ha dicho Jehová, Redentor tuyo, el Santo de Israel: Yo Jehová Dios tuyo, que te enseña provechosamente, que te encamina por el camino que andas.
18 If you had only listened carefully to what I told you! Then your blessings would have flowed like a river, and goodness would have washed over you like the waves of the sea.
18 ¡Ojalá miraras tú á mis mandamientos! fuera entonces tu paz como un río, y tu justicia como las ondas de la mar.
19 Your children, your descendants, would have been like all those grains of sand. They wouldn't have had to be destroyed, wiped out before me.
19 Fuera como la arena tu simiente, y los renuevos de tus entrañas como las pedrezuelas de ella; nunca su nombre fuera cortado, ni raído de mi presencia.
20 Leave Babylon! Run away from Babylonia with happy shouts! Let everyone know, telling the whole earth, “The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
20 Salid de Babilonia, huid de entre los Caldeos; dad nuevas de esto con voz de alegría, publicadlo, llevadlo hasta lo postrero de la tierra: decid: Redimió Jehová á Jacob su siervo.
21 They weren't thirsty when he led them through the desert—he made water come out of the rock for them. He split the rock open and water poured out.
21 Y no tuvieron sed cuando los llevó por los desiertos; hízoles correr agua de la piedra; cortó la peña, y corrieron aguas.
22 The wicked have no peace, says the Lord.
22 No hay paz para los malos, dijo Jehová.
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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“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)