{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/isaiah/48","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T01:56:10.866Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Isaiah","bookSlug":"isaiah","chapter":48,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":47,"nextChapter":49,"totalChapters":66,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"|Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Yahweh, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"(for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name):"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"I have declared the former things from of old; yes, they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them: suddenly I did them, and they happened."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"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, and my engraved image, and my molten image, has commanded them.'"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"You have heard it; see all this; and you, will you not declare it? |I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day you didn't hear them; lest you should say, 'Behold, I knew them.'"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Yes, you didn't hear; yes, you didn't know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you did deal very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for you, that I not cut you off."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it; for how should [my name] be profaned? and my glory I will not give to another."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"|Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"|Assemble yourselves, all you, and hear; who among them has declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves shall perform his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the Chaldeans."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him; I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"|Come near to me and hear this: |From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I.| Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, with his Spirit."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"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:"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your body like its grains: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Go forth from Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans; with a voice of singing declare, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth: say, Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"They didn't thirst when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"|There is no peace,| says Yahweh, |for the wicked.|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Isaiah 48 (WEB)","markdown":"[Isaiah 48](https://primebible.com/web/isaiah/48)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/isaiah/48 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}