Isaiah 48:12–22

12  Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called;

wI am he; xI am the first, I also am the last.

13  yMine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth,

And ||my right hand hath spanned the heavens:

When I call unto them, they stand up together.

14  All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear;

zWhich among them hath declared these things?

aThe Lord hath loved him:

bHe will do his pleasure on Babylon,

And ahis arm shall be on cthe Chaldeans.

15  I, even I, have spoken; yea, dI have called him:

I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

16  Come ye near unto me, hear ye this;

eI have not spoken in secret from the beginning;

From the time that it was, there am I:

And now fthe Lord God, and fhis Spirit, hath sent me.

17  ghThus saith the Lord, hthy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel;

I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit,

Which leadeth thee iby the way that thou shouldest go.

18  jO that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments!

Then had kthy peace been as a river,

And thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

19  Thy seed also had been las the sand,

And mthe offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof;

His name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

20  nGo ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from cthe Chaldeans,

nnWith a voice of singing declare ye, tell this,

Utter it even to the end of the earth;

Say ye, nnoThe Lord hhath redeemed phis servant Jacob.

21  And qthey thirsted not when he led them through the deserts:

rHe caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them:

qHe clave the rock also, and sthe waters gushed out.

22  tThere is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.