Isaiah 48 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

Israel Refined for God’s Glory

Israel’s Unfaithfulness Rebuked

Isa 48:1“Hear this, O house of Jacob,
Who are called by the name of Israel,
And have come forth from the wellsprings of Judah;
Who swear by the name of the LORD,
And make mention of the God of Israel,
But not in truth or in righteousness;

Isa 48:2

Isa 48:2For they call themselves after the holy city,
And lean on the God of Israel;
The LORD of hosts is His name:

Isa 48:3

Isa 48:3“I have declared the former things from the beginning;
They went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to hear it.
Suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.

Isa 48:4

Isa 48:4Because I knew that you were obstinate,
And your neck was an iron sinew,
And your brow bronze,

Isa 48:5

Isa 48:5Even from the beginning I have declared it to you;
Before it came to pass I proclaimed it to you,
Lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them,
And my carved image and my molded image
Have commanded them.’

Isa 48:6

Isa 48:6“You have heard;
See all this.
And will you not declare it?
I have made you hear new things from this time,
Even hidden things, and you did not know them.

Isa 48:7

Isa 48:7They are created now and not from the beginning;
And before this day you have not heard them,
Lest you should say, ‘Of course I knew them.’

Isa 48:8

Isa 48:8Surely you did not hear,
Surely you did not know;
Surely from long ago your ear was not opened.
For I knew that you would deal very treacherously,
And were called a transgressor from the womb.

Isa 48:9

Isa 48:9“For My name’s sake I will defer My anger,
And for My praise I will restrain it from you,
So that I do not cut you off.

Isa 48:10

Isa 48:10Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

Isa 48:11

Isa 48:11For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it;
For how should My name be profaned?
And I will not give My glory to another.

God’s Ancient Plan to Redeem Israel

Isa 48:12

Isa 48:12“Listen to Me, O Jacob,
And Israel, My called:
I am He, I am the First,
I am also the Last.

Isa 48:13

Isa 48:13Indeed My hand has laid the foundation of the earth,
And My right hand has stretched out the heavens;
When I call to them,
They stand up together.

Isa 48:14

Isa 48:14“All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear!
Who among them has declared these things?
The LORD loves him;
He shall do His pleasure on Babylon,
And His arm shall be against the Chaldeans.

Isa 48:15

Isa 48:15I, even I, have spoken;
Yes, I have called him,
I have brought him, and his way will prosper.

Isa 48:16

Isa 48:16“Come near to Me, hear this:
I have not spoken in secret from the beginning;
From the time that it was, I was there.
And now the Lord GOD and His Spirit
Have[fn] sent Me.”

Isa 48:17

Isa 48:17Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer,
The Holy One of Israel:
“I am the LORD your God,
Who teaches you to profit,
Who leads you by the way you should go.

Isa 48:18

Isa 48:18Oh, that you had heeded My commandments!
Then your peace would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Isa 48:19

Isa 48:19Your descendants also would have been like the sand,
And the offspring of your body like the grains of sand;
His name would not have been cut off
Nor destroyed from before Me.”

Isa 48:20

Isa 48:20Go forth from Babylon!
Flee from the Chaldeans!
With a voice of singing,
Declare, proclaim this,
Utter it to the end of the earth;
Say, “The LORD has redeemed
His servant Jacob!”

Isa 48:21

Isa 48:21And they did not thirst
When He led them through the deserts;
He caused the waters to flow from the rock for them;
He also split the rock, and the waters gushed out.

Isa 48:22

Isa 48:22“There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”

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NKJV Footnotes

(48:16)

The Hebrew verb is singular.

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