The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

 1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the ^awaters of Judah, which ^bswear by the name of the Lord, and make ^cmention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.

 2 For they call themselves of the ^aholy city, and ^bstay themselves upon the God of Israel; The Lord of hosts is his name.

 3 I have ^adeclared the ^bformer things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.

 4 Because I knew that ^athou art ^bobstinate, and thy ^cneck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

 5 I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

 6 Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.

 7 They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.

 8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the ^awomb.

 9 ¶For my ^aname’s sake will I defer mine ^banger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

 10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the ^afurnace of ^baffliction.

 11 For mine own ^asake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my ^bname be polluted? and I will not ^cgive my glory unto another.

 12 ¶Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

 13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the ^aearth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.

 14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The Lord hath loved him: he will do his ^apleasure on ^bBabylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

 15 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

 16 ¶Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in ^asecret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath ^bsent me.

 17 Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which ^aleadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.

 18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy ^apeace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

 19 Thy ^aseed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

 20 ¶Go ye forth of ^aBabylon, flee ye from the ^bChaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

 21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the ^awaters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

 22 There is no ^apeace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.