Isaiah 48

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THE HARDNESS OF YISRA EL
Hear this, O house of Yaaqov - called by the name of Yisra El coming from the waters of Yah Hudah; who oaths by the name of Yah Veh and memorializes Elohim of Yisra El - neither in truth, nor in justness. 2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and prop themselves on Elohim of Yisra El; Yah Veh Sabaoth is his name. 3 I told of the former ever since; and they come from my mouth, and I hear them; I work them suddenly; and they become. 4 Because I know you are hard, and your neck an iron sinew and your forehead copper; 5 I even tell you ever since; so that you hear ere it becomes: lest you say, My idol worked them! And my sculptile and my libation misvahed them! 6 Hear you? See you all this? - and tell it not? I have you hear the new from this time, - the guarded, and you know them not. 7 They are now created - not from the beginning from the face of the day when you heard not; lest you say, Behold, I knew them. 8 Yes, you heard not; yes, you knew not; yes, from the time your ear was not opened: for I knew that in dealing covertly, that you deal covertly - a rebel from the belly. 9 For sake of my name, I prolong my wrath; and for my halal, I restrain for you, that I not cut you off. 10 Behold, I refined you, but not with silver; I chose you in the furnace of humiliation. 11 For my own sake - for my own sake, I work it. For how is it profaned? And I give not my honor to another. 12 Hearken to me, O Yaaqov and Yisra El, my called; I am he; I - first; yes, I - final. 13 Also, my hand founded the earth and my right palm spanned the heavens: I call to them; they stand together. 14 All of you, gather and hear; who among them tells these? Yah Veh loved him: he works his delight on Babel, and his arm on the Kesediym. 15 I - I worded; yes, I called him: I brought him; and prospered his way. 16 Approach me; hear this; I worded not covertly from the beginning; from the time of its being, there I am: and now Adonay Yah Veh and his Spirit send me. 17 Thus says Yah Veh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Yisra El; I - Yah Veh your Elohim teaching you to benefit, aiming you in the way to go. 18 O had you hearkened to my misvoth then your shalom had become as a river, and your justness as the waves of the sea: 19 and your seed as the sand; and the offspring of your inwards as the belly; and his name, neither cut off nor destroyed from my face. 20 Come from Babel! Flee from the Kesediym! Tell with a voice of shouting what we hear! Utter it to the end of the earth! Say, Yah Veh redeems his servant Yaaqov. 21 And they thirst not; he carried them through the parched areas: he flowed the waters from the rock for them: he split the rock and the waters flowed. 22 There is no shalom, says Yah Veh, to the wicked.