“Hear this, house of Jacob, Jer 4:2Psa 68:26Deu 6:13Gen 32:28Isa 1:10-14Isa 65:16Jer 5:2Jer 7:9-10
you who are called by the name of Israel,
and have come out of the waters of Judah.
You swear by the LORD’s name,
and make mention of the God of Israel,
but not in truth, nor in righteousness—
for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, Mic 3:11Isa 10:20Isa 52:1Rom 2:17Jer 21:2Mat 27:531Sa 4:3-5Dan 9:24
and rely on the God of Israel;
the LORD of Armies is his name.
I have declared the former things from of old. Isa 42:9Isa 41:22Jos 21:45Isa 44:7-8Isa 45:21Isa 43:9Isa 46:9-10Jos 23:14-15
Yes, they went out of my mouth, and I revealed them.
I did them suddenly, and they happened.
Because I knew that you are obstinate, Act 7:51Exo 32:9Zec 7:11-12Pro 29:1Ezk 3:4-9Rom 2:5Jer 19:15Jer 5:3
and your neck is an iron sinew,
and your brow bronze;
therefore I have declared it to you from of old; Isa 48:3Luk 1:70Act 15:18Jer 44:15-18Isa 42:8-9Isa 44:7Isa 46:10
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.’
You have heard it. Rev 4:1Isa 42:9Rom 16:25-26Isa 43:19Isa 43:8-10Jhn 15:15Mat 10:271Co 2:9
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.
They are created now, and not from of old.
Before today, you didn’t hear them,
lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
Yes, you didn’t hear. Psa 58:3Hos 5:7Ezk 16:3-5Isa 42:19-20Jer 6:10Jhn 12:39-40Mal 2:11Mat 13:13-15
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.
For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger, Psa 79:9Isa 37:35Psa 106:8Psa 143:11Psa 78:381Sa 12:22Dan 9:17-19Ezk 20:14
and for my praise, I hold it back for you
so that I don’t cut you off.
Behold, I have refined you, 1Pe 4:12Pro 17:3Job 23:10Heb 12:10-11Psa 66:101Pe 1:7Jer 9:7Mal 3:2-3
but not as silver.
I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
For my own sake, Isa 42:8Ezk 20:9Ezk 20:14Isa 37:351Sa 12:22Ezk 20:22Isa 43:25Jer 14:7
for my own sake, I will do it;
for how would my name be profaned?
I will not give my glory to another.
“Listen to me, O Jacob, Isa 41:4Rev 1:8Rev 22:13Isa 44:6Rev 17:14Rom 8:28Isa 43:11Isa 55:3
and Israel my called:
I am he.
I am the first.
I am also the last.
Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, Heb 1:10-12Psa 102:25Exo 20:11Isa 45:18Isa 40:26Isa 42:5Isa 40:12Psa 119:89-91
and my right hand has spread out the heavens.
when I call to them, they stand up together.
“Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear! Isa 43:9Isa 13:17-18Jer 50:21-29Isa 13:4-5Isa 41:22Isa 45:20-21Isa 46:10-11Jer 51:20-24
Who among them has declared these things?
He whom the LORD loves will do what he likes to Babylon,
and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.
I, even I, have spoken. Jos 1:8Isa 45:1-2Psa 45:4Ezk 1:2
Yes, I have called him.
I have brought him
and he shall make his way prosperous.
“Come near to me and hear this: Jhn 18:20Jhn 20:21-22Isa 45:19Isa 61:1-3Jhn 3:34Isa 11:1-5Luk 4:18Isa 48:3-6
“From the beginning I have not spoken in secret;
from the time that it happened, I was there.”
Now the Lord GOD has sent me
with his Spirit.
The LORD, Psa 32:8Psa 25:12Job 22:21-22Deu 8:17-18Isa 30:20Psa 73:24Isa 54:13Job 36:22
your Redeemer,
the Holy One of Israel, says:
“I am the LORD your God,
who teaches you to profit,
who leads you by the way that you should go.
Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Deu 5:29Isa 66:12Psa 119:165Psa 81:13-16Deu 32:29Isa 45:8Luk 19:41-42Psa 36:8
Then your peace would have been like a river
and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
Your offspring also would have been as the sand Isa 10:22Gen 22:17Hos 1:10Jer 33:22Rom 9:271Ki 9:7Gen 13:16Isa 14:22
and the descendants of your body like its grains.
His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.”
Leave Babylon! Isa 52:9Jer 50:8Jer 51:45Jer 51:6Rev 18:4Zec 2:6-7Exo 15:1-21Exo 19:4-6
Flee from the Chaldeans!
With the sound of joyful shouting announce this,
tell it even to the end of the earth;
say, “The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts. Isa 43:19-20Psa 105:41Isa 41:17-18Exo 17:6Isa 35:6-7Num 20:11Psa 78:20Isa 30:25
He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them.
He also split the rock and the waters gushed out.
“There is no peace”, says the LORD, “for the wicked.” Isa 57:21Job 15:20-24Luk 19:42Rom 3:17