Isaiah · Majority Standard Bible
Isaiah 48 Majority Standard Bible
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1 “Listen to this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, who have descended from the line of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, who invoke the God of Israel—but not in truth or righteousness—
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 who indeed call yourselves after the holy city and lean on the God of Israel; the LORD of Hosts is His name.
2 Porque de la santa ciudad se nombran, y en el Dios de Israel confían: su nombre, Jehová de los ejércitos.
3 I foretold the former things long ago; they came out of My mouth and I proclaimed them. Suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.
3 Lo que pasó, ya antes lo dije; y de mi boca salió; publiquélo, hícelo presto, y vino á ser.
4 For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
4 Porque conozco que eres duro, y nervio de hierro tu cerviz, y tu frente de metal,
5 Therefore I declared it to you long ago; I announced it before it came to pass, so that you could not claim, ‘My idol has done this; my carved image and molten god has ordained it.’
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 have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not acknowledge them? From now on I will tell you of new things, hidden things unknown to you.
6 Oístelo, vístelo todo; ¿y no lo anunciaréis vosotros? Ahora pues te he hecho oir nuevas y ocultas cosas que tú no sabías.
7 They are created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today. So you cannot claim, ‘I already knew them!’
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 You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel 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 For the sake of My name I will delay My wrath; for the sake of My praise I will restrain it, so that you will not be cut off.
9 Por amor de mi nombre dilataré mi furor, y para alabanza mía te daré largas, para no talarte.
10 See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
10 He aquí te he purificado, y no como á plata; hete escogido en horno de aflicción.
11 For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.
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, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I have called: I am He; 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 Surely My own hand founded the earth, and My right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they stand up together.
13 Mi mano fundó también la tierra, y mi mano derecha midió los cielos con el palmo; en llamándolos yo, parecieron juntamente.
14 Come together, all of you, and listen: Which of the idols has foretold these things? The LORD’s chosen ally will carry out His desire against Babylon, and His arm will be against the Chaldeans.
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, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him. I have brought him, and he will succeed in his mission.
15 Yo, yo hablé, y le llamé, y le traje; por tanto será prosperado su camino.
16 Come near to Me and listen to this: From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time it happened, I was there.” And now the Lord GOD has sent me, accompanied by His Spirit.
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 Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who directs you in 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 only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like 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 descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and your offspring as numerous as its grains; their name would never be cut off or eliminated from My presence.”
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! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare it with a shout of joy, proclaim it, let it go out to the ends of the earth, saying, “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 did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He made water flow for them from the rock; He split the rock, and water gushed 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 “There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”
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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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)