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World English Bible

Isaiah 48 (WEBP)

[1] “Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness—
[2] for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name.
[3] I have declared the former things from of old. Yes, they went out of my mouth, and I revealed them. I did them suddenly, and they happened.
[4] Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;
[5] therefore I have declared it to you from of old; 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.’
[6] You have heard it. 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.
[7] They are created now, and not from of old. Before today, you didn’t hear them, lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
[8] Yes, you didn’t hear. 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.
[9] For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger, and for my praise, I hold it back for you so that I don’t cut you off.
[10] Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
[11] For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it; for how would my name be profaned? 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] Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. when I call to them, they stand up together.
[14] “Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear! Who among them has declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves will do what he likes to Babylon, and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.
[15] I, even I, have spoken. Yes, I have called him. I have brought him and he shall make his way prosperous.
[16] “Come near to me and hear this: “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there.” Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me with his Spirit.
[17] Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
[18] Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
[19] Your offspring also would have been as the sand and the descendants of your body like its grains. His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.”
[20] Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With the sound of joyful shouting announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth; say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
[21] They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts. He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them. He also split the rock and the waters gushed out.
[22] “There is no peace”, says Yahweh, “for the wicked.”

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

Isaiah 48 (KJVS)

[1] Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
[2] For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The Lord of hosts is his name.
[3] I have declared the former 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 thou art obstinate, and thy neck 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 womb.
[9] For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, 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 furnace of affliction.
[11] For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give 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 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; which among them hath declared these things? The Lord hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, 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 secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent 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 leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
[18] 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:
[19] thy seed 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 Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, 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 waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
[22] There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.

Isaiah 48:4 Heb. hard
Isaiah 48:10 Or, for silver
Isaiah 48:13 Or, the palm of my right hand hath spread out

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

Isaiah 48 (BYZ)

[1] Ἀκούσατε () ταῦτα, () οἶκος () Ιακωβ () οἱ () κεκλημένοι () τῷ () ὀνόματι () Ισραηλ () καὶ () οἱ () ἐξ () Ιουδα ἐξελθόντες () οἱ () ὀμνύοντες () τῷ () ὀνόματι () κυρίου () θεοῦ () Ισραηλ () μιμνῃσκόμενοι οὐ () μετὰ () ἀληθείας () οὐδὲ () μετὰ () δικαιοσύνης ()
[2] καὶ () ἀντεχόμενοι () τῷ () ὀνόματι () τῆς () πόλεως () τῆς () ἁγίας () καὶ () ἐπὶ () τῷ () θεῷ () τοῦ () Ισραηλ () ἀντιστηριζόμενοι, κύριος () σαβαωθ () ὄνομα () αὐτῷ. ()
[3] Τὰ () πρότερα ἔτι () ἀνήγγειλα, () καὶ () ἐκ () τοῦ () στόματός () μου () ἐξῆλθεν () καὶ () ἀκουστὸν ἐγένετο· () ἐξάπινα () ἐποίησα, () καὶ () ἐπῆλθεν. ()
[4] Γινώσκω () ἐγὼ () ὅτι () σκληρὸς () εἶ, () καὶ () νεῦρον σιδηροῦν () ὁ () τράχηλός () σου, () καὶ () τὸ () μέτωπόν () σου () χαλκοῦν. ()
[5] Καὶ () ἀνήγγειλά () σοι () πάλαι, () πρὶν () ἐλθεῖν () ἐπὶ () σὲ () ἀκουστόν σοι () ἐποίησα· () μὴ () εἴπῃς () ὅτι () Τὰ () εἴδωλά () μου () ἐποίησαν, () καὶ () μὴ () εἴπῃς () ὅτι () Τὰ () γλυπτὰ καὶ () τὰ () χωνευτὰ ἐνετείλατό () μοι. ()
[6] Ἠκούσατε () πάντα, () καὶ () ὑμεῖς () οὐκ () ἔγνωτε· () ἀλλὰ () καὶ () ἀκουστά σοι () ἐποίησα () τὰ () καινὰ () ἀπὸ () τοῦ () νῦν, () ἃ () μέλλει () γίνεσθαι, () καὶ () οὐκ () εἶπας. ()
[7] Νῦν () γίνεται () καὶ () οὐ () πάλαι, () καὶ () οὐ () προτέραις ἡμέραις () ἤκουσας () αὐτά· () μὴ () εἴπῃς () ὅτι () Ναί, () γινώσκω () αὐτά. ()
[8] Οὔτε () ἔγνως () οὔτε () ἠπίστω, () οὔτε () ἀπ’ () ἀρχῆς () ἤνοιξά () σου () τὰ () ὦτα· () ἔγνων () γὰρ () ὅτι () ἀθετῶν () ἀθετήσεις () καὶ () ἄνομος () ἔτι () ἐκ () κοιλίας () κληθήσῃ. ()
[9] Ἕνεκεν () τοῦ () ἐμοῦ () ὀνόματος () δείξω () σοι () τὸν () θυμόν () μου () καὶ () τὰ () ἔνδοξά () μου () ἐπάξω () ἐπὶ () σοί, () ἵνα () μὴ () ἐξολεθρεύσω () σε. ()
[10] Ἰδοὺ () πέπρακά () σε () οὐχ () ἕνεκεν () ἀργυρίου, () ἐξειλάμην () δέ () σε () ἐκ () καμίνου () πτωχείας· ()
[11] ἕνεκεν () ἐμοῦ () ποιήσω () σοι, () ὅτι () τὸ () ἐμὸν () ὄνομα () βεβηλοῦται, () καὶ () τὴν () δόξαν () μου () ἑτέρῳ () οὐ () δώσω. ()
[12] Ἄκουέ () μου, () Ιακωβ () καὶ () Ισραηλ () ὃν () ἐγὼ () καλῶ· () ἐγώ () εἰμι () πρῶτος, () καὶ () ἐγώ () εἰμι () εἰς () τὸν () αἰῶνα, ()
[13] καὶ () ἡ () χείρ () μου () ἐθεμελίωσεν () τὴν () γῆν, () καὶ () ἡ () δεξιά () μου () ἐστερέωσεν () τὸν () οὐρανόν· () καλέσω () αὐτούς, () καὶ () στήσονται () ἅμα ()
[14] καὶ () συναχθήσονται () πάντες () καὶ () ἀκούσονται. () Τίς () αὐτοῖς () ἀνήγγειλεν () ταῦτα; () Ἀγαπῶν () σε () ἐποίησα () τὸ () θέλημά () σου () ἐπὶ () Βαβυλῶνα () τοῦ () ἆραι () σπέρμα () Χαλδαίων. ()
[15] Ἐγὼ () ἐλάλησα, () ἐγὼ () ἐκάλεσα, () ἤγαγον () αὐτὸν () καὶ () εὐόδωσα () τὴν () ὁδὸν () αὐτοῦ. ()
[16] Προσαγάγετε () πρός () με () καὶ () ἀκούσατε () ταῦτα· () οὐκ () ἀπ’ () ἀρχῆς () ἐν () κρυφῇ () ἐλάλησα () οὐδὲ () ἐν () τόπῳ () γῆς () σκοτεινῷ· () ἡνίκα () ἐγένετο, () ἐκεῖ () ἤμην, () καὶ () νῦν () κύριος () ἀπέσταλκέν () με () καὶ () τὸ () πνεῦμα () αὐτοῦ. ()
[17] Οὕτως () λέγει () κύριος () ὁ () ῥυσάμενός () σε () ὁ () ἅγιος () Ισραηλ () Ἐγώ () εἰμι () ὁ () θεός () σου, () δέδειχά () σοι () τοῦ () εὑρεῖν () σε () τὴν () ὁδόν, () ἐν () ᾗ () πορεύσῃ () ἐν () αὐτῇ. ()
[18] Καὶ () εἰ () ἤκουσας () τῶν () ἐντολῶν () μου, () ἐγένετο () ἂν () ὡσεὶ () ποταμὸς () ἡ () εἰρήνη () σου () καὶ () ἡ () δικαιοσύνη () σου () ὡς () κῦμα () θαλάσσης· ()
[19] καὶ () ἐγένετο () ἂν () ὡς () ἡ () ἄμμος () τὸ () σπέρμα () σου () καὶ () τὰ () ἔκγονα () τῆς () κοιλίας () σου () ὡς () ὁ () χοῦς () τῆς () γῆς· () οὐδὲ () νῦν () οὐ () μὴ () ἐξολεθρευθῇς, () οὐδὲ () ἀπολεῖται () τὸ () ὄνομά () σου () ἐνώπιόν () μου. ()
[20] Ἔξελθε () ἐκ () Βαβυλῶνος () φεύγων () ἀπὸ () τῶν () Χαλδαίων· () φωνὴν () εὐφροσύνης () ἀναγγείλατε, () καὶ () ἀκουστὸν γενέσθω () τοῦτο, () ἀπαγγείλατε () ἕως () ἐσχάτου () τῆς () γῆς, () λέγετε () Ἐρρύσατο () κύριος () τὸν () δοῦλον () αὐτοῦ () Ιακωβ. ()
[21] Καὶ () ἐὰν () διψήσωσιν, () δι’ () ἐρήμου () ἄξει () αὐτούς, () ὕδωρ () ἐκ () πέτρας () ἐξάξει () αὐτοῖς· () σχισθήσεται () πέτρα, () καὶ () ῥυήσεται () ὕδωρ, () καὶ () πίεται () ὁ () λαός () μου. ()
[22] Οὐκ () ἔστιν () χαίρειν () τοῖς () ἀσεβέσιν, () λέγει () κύριος. ()

Isaiah 48:8 Corrected from κηλθήσῃ, as seen in RH and SW. The future passive of καλέω is κληθήσῃ, which this edition prints at its seven other occurrences.

Old Testament scripture quotations and versification from Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935). New Testament quotations are from the Byzantine Text (Guardian Press, LLC, Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026). Both are in the public domain.