"HEAR this, O house of Jacob, who called by the name of Israel, and have forth from the  wellspring of Judah; who swear by name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth or in righteousness;

2 For they called themselves after the holy city, and lean on the God of Israel; the LORD of hosts is His name:

3 "I have declared the former things from the beginning; they went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to hear it. Suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.

4 Because I knew that you were obstinate, and your neck were an iron sinew, and your brow  bronze.

5 Even from the beginning I have declare it to you; before it came to pass I proclaimed it to you;   before it came to pass I proclaimed it to you, lest you should say, 'My idol has done them and  my carverd image and my molded image have commanded them.'

6 "You have heard; see all this. and will you not declare it ? I have made you hear new things from this time, even hidding things, and you did not know them.

7 They are created now and not from the beginning; and before this day you have not heard them, lest you should say, 'Of course I knew them.'

8 Surely you did not hear, surely you did not know; surely from long ago your ear was not opened. For I knew that you would deal tracherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

9 "For My name's sake I will defer My anger, and for My praise I will restrain it from you, so that I do not cut you off .

10  Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furance of affliction.

11 For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it; for how should My name profaned? And I will not give My glory to another.

12 Listen to Me, O Jacob, and Israel, My called: I am He, I am the First, I am also the Last

13 Indeed My hand had laid wast the foundation of the earth, and My right hand stretched out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand togather.

14 "All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear! Who among them has declared these things? The LORD loves him; he shall do His pleasure on Babylon, and His arm shall be against the Chaldeans.

16 I, even, have spoken; yes, I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that  it was, I was there. And now the Lord GOD and His Spirit have sent Me."

17 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way you should go.

18 Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like the river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

19 Your descendants also have been like the sand, and the offspring of your body like the grains if the sand; his name would not have been cut off nor destroyed from before Me."

20 Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldean! With a voice of singing, declare, peoclaim this, utter it to the end of the earth; say, "The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!"

21 And they did not thirst when He lead them through the deserts; He caused the water to flow from them rock  for them; He also split the rock, and the waters gushed out.

22 "Their is no peace, "says the LORD, "for the wicked." ISAIAH 48