Hear this, O house of Ya῾aqov, who are called by the name of Yisra᾽el, and are come forth out of the waters of Yehuda, who swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Yisra᾽el, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.

For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Yisra᾽el, The Lord of hosts is his name.

I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went out of my mouth, and I reported them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.

Because I know that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy forehead brass;

I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I showed it thee: lest thou shouldst say, My idol has done them, and my carved idol, and my molten image has commanded them.

Thou hast heard, now see all this; and will you not declare it? I have shown thee new things from this time, hidden things, which thou didst not know.

They are created now, and not from the beginning; and before this day thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldst say, Behold, I knew them.

Thou didst neither hear nor know; nor from old was thy ear opened: for I knew that thou wouldst deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from birth.

For my name’s sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not into silver; I have tried thee in the furnace of affliction.

For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be profaned? and I will not give my glory to another.

Hearken to me, O Ya῾aqov and Yisra᾽el whom I called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spanned the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.

All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them has declared these things? He whom the Lord loves, he will do his pleasure on Bavel, and his arm shall be on the Kasdim.

I, even I, have spoken; indeed, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall succeed in his way.

Come near to me, hear this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there have I been: and now the Lord God, and his spirit, has sent me.

Thus says the Lord, thy redeemer, the Holy One of Yisra᾽el; I am the Lord thy God who teaches thee for thy profit, who leads thee by the way that thou shouldst go.

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

thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like its pebbles; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

Go forth out of Bavel, flee from the Kasdim, with a voice of singing declare, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say, The Lord has redeemed his servant Ya῾aqov.

And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused water to flow out of the rock for them: he split the rock, and the water gushed out.

There is no peace, says the Lord, for the wicked.