2 For they be called of the holy city, and be stablished on the God of Israel, the Lord of hosts is his name.
3 From that time I told [out] the former things, and those went out of my mouth; and I made them known; suddenly I wrought, and those things came.
4 For I knew that thou art hard, and thy noll is a sinew of iron, and thy forehead is of brass.
5 I before-said to thee from that time; before that those things came, I showed to thee; lest peradventure thou wouldest say, Mine idols did these things, and my graven images, and my molten images, sent these things,
6 which thou heardest. See thou all things, but ye told not. I made heard new things to thee from that time, and things be kept which thou knowest not;
7 now those be made of nought, and not from that time, and before the day, and thou heardest not those things; lest peradventure thou say, Lo! I knew those things.
8 Neither thou heardest, neither thou knewest, neither thine ear was opened from that time; for I know, that thou trespassing shalt trespass, and I called thee a trespasser from the womb.
9 For my name I shall make far my strong vengeance, and with my praising I shall refrain [or bridle] thee, lest thou perish.
10 Lo! I have sodden thee, but not as silver; I chose thee in the chimney of poverty.
11 I shall do for me, that I be not blasphemed, and I shall not give my glory to another.
12 Jacob and Israel, whom I call, hear thou me; I myself, I am the first, and I am the last.
13 And mine hand founded the earth, and my right hand meted [or measured] heavens; I shall call them, and they shall stand together.
14 All ye be gathered together, and hear; who of them told [out] these things? The Lord loved him, he shall do his will in Babylon, and his arm in Chaldees.
15 I, I spake, and called him; I brought him, and his way was addressed.
16 Nigh ye to me, and hear ye these things; at the beginning I spake not in huddles, either private; from time, before that things were made, I was there, and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, sent me.
17 The Lord, thine again-buyer, the Holy of Israel, saith these things, I am thy Lord God, teaching thee profitable things, and I govern thee in the way, wherein thou goest.
18 I would that thou haddest perceived my commandments, thy peace had been made as [a] flood, and thy rightfulness [or rightwiseness] as the swells of the sea;
19 and thy seed had been as gravel, and the generation of thy womb, as the little stones thereof; the name of it had not perished, and had not been all-broken from my face.
20 Go ye out of Babylon, flee ye from Chaldees; tell ye in the voice of full out joying; make ye this heard, and bear ye it unto the last parts of [the] earth; say ye, The Lord again-bought his servant Jacob.
21 They thirsted not in the desert, when he led them out; he brought forth to them water of a stone, and he parted the stone, and waters flowed.
22 Peace is not to wicked men, saith the Lord.
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