1Hear ye thisO house of Jacob, Ye who call yourselves by the name of Israel, Yea from the waters of Judah, came they forth,Who swear by the name of Yahweh, And, by the God of Israel, call to remembranceNot in truth, nor in righteousness; 2For of the holy city, do they call themselves, And on the God of Israel, do they stay themselves,Yahweh of hosts, is his name. 3Things in advance, of old, I declared, Yea out of mine own mouth, came they forth, that I might let them be known,Suddenly, I wrought and they came to pass. 4Because I knew thatObstinate, thou wast,And, a sinew of iron, was thy neck, And thy brow, brazen, 5therefore told I theein time past, Ere yet it came, I let thee hear,Lest thou shouldest say Mine idol wrought them, Yea, my carved image and my molten image, commanded them! 6Thou hast heardsee it whole, And will, ye, not tell? I have let thee hear new thingsfrom the present time, Even secrets which ye knew not. 7Now, are they created, and not in time past, And, before to-day, thou hadst not heard of them,Lest thou shouldest say, Lo! I knew them! 8Nay! thou hadst not heard, Nay! thou hadst not known, Nay! in time past, thine ear, was not opened,For I knew that thou, wouldst be treacherous, Yea a transgressor from birth, hast thou been called. 9For the sake of mine own Name, will I defer mine anger, And for my praise, will I restrain myself towards thee,So as not to cut thee off. 10Lo! I have refined thee, but not as silver,I have tested thee, in a smelting-pot of affliction. 11For mine own sakefor mine own sake, will I effectually work For how should it be profaned? And, my gloryto another, will I not give. 12Hearken unto me O Jacob, And Israel, my called one,I, am, the Same I, the first, yea, I, the last: 13Surely, mine own hand, founded the earth, And, my right hand, stretched out the heavens,While I was calling unto them, they stood forth, at once 14Assemble yourselvesall of you and hear, Who among them, hath told these things? he whom Yahweh loveth, will executeHis pleasure, on Babylon, And his stroke on the Chaldeans. 15II, have spoken, Yea I have called him,I have brought him in, and he shall make prosperous his way. 16Draw ye near unto mehear ye this, Not in advance in secret, have I spoken, From the very time it cometh into being, there, am I,And, now, My Lord Yahweh hath sent me and his spirit. 17Thus saith YahwehThy Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel,IYahweh, am thy God, Teaching thee to profit, Guiding thee in the way thou shouldest go. 18Oh! that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments,Then had been, like a river, thy prosperity, And, thy righteousness, like the waves of the sea: 19Then had been, like the sand, thy seed, And, the offspring of thy body, like the grains thereof,Neither cut off nor destroyed had been his name from before me. 20Come ye forth out of Babylon, Flee from among the Chaldeans, With triumphant voice, tell yelet this be heard, Let it go forth as far as the end of the earth,Say yeYahweh hath redeemed his servant Jacob! 21And they thirsted not, when, through dry places, he led them, Waters out of the rock, caused hero flow out to them,Yea be cleft a rock and, there gushed out waters: 22No well-being, saith Yahweh to the lawless,