Isaiah 第48章
Israel Refined for God’s Glory
1Hear this, O house of Jacob,
48:1 ch. 43:1who are called by the name of Israel,
and 48:1 Ps. 68:26who came from the waters of Judah,
48:1 Jer. 7:9who swear by the name of the Lord
and confess the God of Israel,
but not in truth or right.
2For they call themselves after the holy city,
48:2 [Mic. 3:11]and stay themselves on the God of Israel;
the Lord of hosts is his name.
they went out from my mouth, and I announced them;
then suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.
and your neck is an iron sinew
and your forehead brass,
before they came to pass I announced them to you,
lest you should say, 48:5 See Jer. 44:15-17‘My idol did them,
my carved image and my metal image commanded them.’
6“You have heard; now see all this;
and will you not declare it?
From this time forth 48:6 See ch. 43:19I announce to you new things,
hidden things that you have not known.
7They are created now, not long ago;
before today you have never heard of them,
lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
8You have never heard, you have never known,
from of old your ear has not been opened.
For I knew that you would surely deal treacherously,
and that 48:8 ch. 46:8from before birth you were called a rebel.
for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you,
that I may not cut you off.
10Behold, I have refined you, 48:10 [1 Pet. 1:7] but not as silver;
48:10 [Deut. 4:20; Ezek. 22:18, 20, 22]I have tried48:10 Or I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
1148:11 ch. 43:25; Ezek. 20:9For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it,
for how should my name48:11 Hebrew lacks my name be profaned?
48:11 ch. 42:8My glory I will not give to another.
The Lord’s Call to Israel
12“Listen to me, O Jacob,
and Israel, whom I called!
I am he; 48:12 See ch. 41:4I am the first,
and I am the last.
13My hand 48:13 ch. 51:13; [Ps. 102:25; Heb. 1:10] laid the foundation of the earth,
and my right hand 48:13 ch. 51:13; [Ps. 102:25; Heb. 1:10] spread out the heavens;
48:13 [ch. 40:26]when I call to them,
they stand forth together.
14“Assemble, all of you, and listen!
48:14 [ch. 41:26] Who among them has declared these things?
The Lord loves him;
I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.
from the beginning I have not spoken in secret,
from the time it came to be I have been there.”
And now 48:16 ch. 61:1the Lord God has sent me, and his Spirit.
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 in the way you should go.
1848:18 Ps. 81:13; Luke 19:42; [Deut. 32:29] Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments!
48:18 ch. 66:12Then your peace would have been like a river,
and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
1948:19 ch. 10:22; Gen. 22:17; Hos. 1:10your offspring would have been like the sand,
and your descendants like its grains;
their name would never be cut off
or destroyed from before me.”
send it out to the end of the earth;
say, 48:20 ch. 44:23; [Ex. 19:4-6]“The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
2148:21 [ch. 35:6; 44:3; Deut. 8:15] They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts;
48:21 ch. 43:19; Ex. 17:6; Num. 20:11he made water flow for them from the rock;
he split the rock and the water gushed out.
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