Ch 48 / 66~3 min
Yeshayahu

Chapter 48

For His Name's Sake He Redeems

'Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans!' and 'YHWH has redeemed his servant Jacob' — the call Yeshua echoes to His own: come out from every system of the world and follow Him.

  1. Israel Refined in the Furnace

    Elohim refines Israel like silver in a furnace. His purpose in suffering is always purification, not destruction.

  2. 1“Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by YHWH’s name, and make mention of the Elohim of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness—
  3. 2for they call themselves citizens of the kodesh city, and rely on the Elohim of Israel; YHWH Tzeva'ot is his name.
  4. 3I have declared the former things from of old. Yes, they went out of my mouth, and I revealed them. I did them suddenly, and they happened.
  5. 4Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;
  6. 5therefore 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. My engraved image and my molten image has commanded them.’
  7. 6You have heard it. Now see all this. And you, won’t you declare it? I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.
  8. 7They are created now, and not from of old. Before today, you didn’t hear them, lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
  9. 8Yes, you didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.
  10. 9For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger, and for my praise, I hold it back for you so that I don’t cut you off.
  11. 10Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
  12. 11For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it; for how would my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another.
  13. Adonai's Chosen Purpose

    Elohim is the First and the Last who calls the stars. His purposes cannot be thwarted.

  14. 12Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.
  15. 13Yes, 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.
  16. 14Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear! Who amongst them has declared these things? He whom YHWH loves will do what he likes to Babylon, and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.
  17. 15I, even I, have spoken. Yes, I have called him. I have brought him and he shall make his way prosperous.
  18. 16Come near to me and hear this: From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there.” Now Adonai YHWH has sent me with his Ruach.Fulfilled · Yochanan 8:42
  19. If Only You Had Obeyed

    If only you had paid attention to My commands — your peace would have been like a river.

  20. 17YHWH, your Redeemer, the Kodesh One of Israel, says: “I am YHWH your Elohim, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
  21. 18Oh that you had listened to my mitzvot! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
  22. 19Your offspring also would have been as the sand and the descendants of your body like its grains. His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.”
  23. 20Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With the sound of joyful shouting announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth; say, “YHWH has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
  24. 21They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts. He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them. He also split the rock and the waters gushed out.
  25. 22“There is no peace”, says YHWH, “for the wicked.”
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