Isaiah 48 Geneva Bible (1599)
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- Original 16th-century spelling.
1 Hear yee this, O house of Iaakob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come out of the waters of Iudah: which sweare by the Name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousnesse.
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 citie, and staie themselues vpon the God of Israel, whose Name is the Lord of hostes.
2 for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name.
3 I haue declared ye former things of old, and they went out of my mouth, and I shewed them: I did them suddenly, and they came to passe.
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 Because I knewe, that thou art obstinate, and thy necke is an yron sinew, and thy brow brasse,
4 Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;
5 Therefore I haue declared it to thee of old: before it came to passe, I shewed it thee, lest thou shouldest say, Mine idole hath done them, and my carued image, and my molten image hath 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 Thou hast heard, behold all this, and wil not yee declare it? I haue shewed thee newe things, euen now, and hid things, which thou knewest 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 olde, and euen before this thou heardest them not, lest thou shouldest say, Beholde, I knewe 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 Yet thou heardest them not, neither diddest know them, neither yet was thine eare opened of olde: for I knewe that thou wouldest grieuously transgresse: therefore haue I called thee a transgressour from the wombe.
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 Names sake will I defer my wrath, and for my praise will I refraine it from thee, that I cut thee not off.
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 haue fined thee, but not as siluer: I haue chosen thee in the fornace of affliction.
10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
11 For mine owne sake, for mine owne sake wil I doe it: for how should my Name be polluted? surely I wil not giue my glory vnto 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 Heare me, O Iaakob and Israel, my called, I am, 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 Surely mine hand hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heaues: when I cal them, they stand vp 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 All you, assemble your selues, and heare: which among them hath declared these thinges? The Lord hath loued him: he wil doe his will in Babel, and his arme shalbe against 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, euen I haue spoken it, and I haue called him: I haue brought him, and his way shall prosper.
15 I, even I, have spoken. Yes, I have called him. I have brought him and he shall make his way prosperous.
16 Come neere vnto me: heare ye this: I haue not spoken it in secret from the beginning: from the time that the thing was, I was there, and now the Lord God and his Spirit hath sent me.
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, which teach thee to profite, and lead thee by the way, that thou shouldest goe.
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 Oh that thou haddest hearkened to my commandements! then had thy prosperitie bene as the floude, and thy righteousnesse as the waues 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 Thy seede also had beene as the sande, and the fruite of thy body like the grauell thereof: his name should not haue bene cut off nor destroied before me.
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 Goe yee out of Babel: flee yee from the Chaldeans, with a voice of ioy: tel and declare this: shewe it foorth to the ende of the earth: say yee, The Lord hath redeemed his seruant Iaakob.
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 And they were not thirstie: hee led them through the wildernesse: hee caused the waters to flowe out of the rocke for them: for he claue the rocke, and the water 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, sayeth the Lord, vnto the wicked.
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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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)