15THUS THEY HAVE BECOME FOR YOU [THOSE] WHOM YOU HAVE LABORED TRADERS YOUR SINCE YOUTH<S> YOUR EVERYONE TO SIDE HIS THEY HAVE WANDERED THERE NOT [IS] A DELIVERER FOR YOU 15This is what they are to you— those with whom you have labored and traded from youth— each one strays in his own direction; not one of them can save you. [’’]
1LISTEN TO THIS O HOUSE OF JACOB THOSE [WHO] ARE CALLED BY [THE] NAME OF ISRAEL AND FROM [THE] WATERS OF JUDAH THEY CAME OUT THOSE [WHO] SWEAR BY [THE] NAME OF YAHWEH AND <IN> [THE] GOD OF ISRAEL THEY BRING TO REMEMBRANCE NOT IN TRUTH AND NOT IN RIGHTEOUSNESS Israel’s Stubbornness 1“Listen to this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, who have descended from the line of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, who invoke the God of Israel— but not in truth or righteousness—
2FOR FROM [THE] CITY OF <THE> HOLINESS THEY HAVE CALLED THEMSELVES AND ON [THE] GOD OF ISRAEL THEY HAVE SUPPORTED THEMSELVES [IS] YAHWEH OF HOSTS NAME HIS 2who indeed call yourselves after the holy city and lean on the God of Israel; the LORD of Hosts is His name.
3THE FORMER [THINGS] FROM THEN I DECLARED AND FROM MOUTH MY THEY WENT OUT AND I PROCLAIMED THEM SUDDENLY I ACTED AND THEY CAME 3I foretold the former things long ago; they came out of My mouth and I proclaimed them. Suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.
4FOR KNEW I THAT [WERE] STUBBORN YOU AND [WAS] A SINEW OF IRON NECK YOUR AND FOREHEAD YOUR [WAS] BRONZE 4For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
5AND I DECLARED [THEM] TO YOU FROM THEN <IN> BEFORE IT CAME I PROCLAIMED TO YOU LEST YOU SHOULD SAY IDOL MY IT DID THEM AND CARVED IMAGE MY AND MOLTEN IMAGE MY IT COMMANDED THEM 5Therefore I declared it to you long ago; I announced it before it came to pass, so that you could not claim, ‘My idol has done this; my carved image and molten god has ordained it.’
6YOU HAVE HEARD LOOK AT ALL OF IT AND YOU ¿ NOT WILL YOU TELL I WILL PROCLAIM TO YOU NEW [THINGS] FROM NOW AND SECRET [THINGS] AND NOT YOU HAVE KNOWN THEM 6You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not acknowledge them? From now on I will tell you of new things, hidden things unknown to you.
7NOW THEY HAVE BEEN CREATED AND NOT FROM THEN AND <TO> BEFORE A DAY AND NOT YOU HAD HEARD OF THEM LEST YOU SHOULD SAY HERE! I KNEW THEM 7They are created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today. So you cannot claim, ‘I already knew them!’
8NEITHER NOT YOU HEARD NOR NOT YOU KNEW NOR FROM THEN NOT IT OPENED EAR YOUR FOR I KNEW CERTAINLY <TO ACT TREACHEROUSLY> YOU WILL ACT TREACHEROUSLY AND A REBEL FROM [THE] WOMB IT HAS BEEN CALLED TO <THE> YOU 8You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.
9FOR [THE] SAKE OF NAME MY I WILL MAKE LONG ANGER MY AND PRAISE MY I WILL RESTRAIN MYSELF TO YOU TO NOT TO CUT OFF YOU 9For the sake of My name I will delay My wrath; for the sake of My praise I will restrain it so that you will not be cut off.
10HERE! I HAVE REFINED YOU AND NOT <IN> SILVER I HAVE CHOSEN YOU IN A FURNACE OF AFFLICTION 10See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
11FOR OWN SAKE MY FOR OWN SAKE MY I WILL ACT FOR HOW? WILL IT BE PROFANED AND GLORY MY TO ANOTHER NOT I WILL GIVE 11For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.
12LISTEN TO ME O JACOB AND ISRAEL CALLED [ONE] MY I [AM] HE I [AM] FIRST ALSO I [AM] LAST Deliverance Promised to Israel 12Listen to Me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I have called: I am He; I am the first, and I am the last.
13ALSO HAND MY IT FOUNDED [THE] EARTH AND RIGHT [HAND] MY IT SPREAD OUT [THE] HEAVENS [AM] CALLING I TO THEM THEY STAND TOGETHER 13Surely My own hand founded the earth, and My right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they stand up together.
14GATHER TOGETHER ALL OF YOU AND LISTEN WHO? AMONG THEM HAS HE DECLARED <OBJ.> THESE [THINGS] YAHWEH HE LOVES HIM HE WILL EXECUTE PLEASURE HIS ON BABYLON AND ARM HIS [THE] CHALDEANS 14Come together, all of you, and listen: Which of the idols has foretold these things? The LORD’s chosen ally will carry out His desire against Babylon, and His arm will be against the Chaldeans.*NoteCloseThat is, the Babylonians; also in verse 20
15I I I HAVE SPOKEN ALSO I HAVE SUMMONED HIM I HAVE BROUGHT HIM AND HE WILL MAKE SUCCESSFUL WAY HIS 15I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him. I have brought him, and he will succeed in his mission.
16DRAW NEAR TO ME LISTEN TO THIS NOT FROM [THE] BEGINNING IN <THE> SECRECY I HAVE SPOKEN FROM [THE] TIME HAPPENED IT [WAS] THERE I AND NOW [THE] LORD YAHWEH HE HAS SENT ME AND SPIRIT HIS 16Come near to Me and listen to this: From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time it happened, I was there.” And now the Lord GOD has sent me, accompanied by His Spirit.
17THUS HE SAYS YAHWEH REDEEMER YOUR [THE] HOLY [ONE] OF ISRAEL I [AM] YAHWEH GOD YOUR [WHO] TEACHES YOU TO PROFIT [WHO] LEADS YOU IN [THE] WAY [WHICH] YOU WILL GO 17Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who directs you in the way you should go.
18IF YOU HAD PAID ATTENTION TO COMMANDMENTS MY AND IT WAS LIKE <THE> RIVER PEACE YOUR AND RIGHTEOUSNESS YOUR LIKE [THE] WAVES OF THE SEA 18If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.
19AND IT WAS LIKE THE SAND OFFSPRING YOUR AND [THE] DESCENDANTS OF INWARD PARTS YOUR LIKE GRAINS ITS NOT IT WILL BE CUT OFF AND NOT IT WILL BE DESTROYED NAME ITS FROM TO BEFORE ME 19Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and your offspring as numerous as its grains;*NoteCloseLiterally like the sand, and your offspring like its grains their name would never be cut off or eliminated from My presence.”
20GO OUT FROM BABYLON FLEE FROM [THE] CHALDEANS WITH A SOUND OF A SHOUT OF JOY DECLARE PROCLAIM THIS SEND OUT IT TO [THE] END OF THE EARTH SAY HE HAS REDEEMED YAHWEH SERVANT HIS JACOB 20Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare it with a shout of joy, proclaim it, let it go out to the ends of the earth, saying, “The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!”
21AND NOT THEY WERE THIRSTY [WHEN] IN [THE] WASTE PLACES HE LED THEM WATER FROM A ROCK HE CAUSED TO FLOW FOR THEM AND HE SPLIT OPEN A ROCK AND THEY FLOWED OUT WATERS 21They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He made water flow for them from the rock; He split the rock, and water gushed out.
22NOT PEACE HE SAYS YAHWEH [BELONGS] TO <THE> WICKED [PEOPLE] 22“There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”