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heard: but have you declared them? I have 18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my com-
shewn thee new things from that time, and mandments: thy peace had been as a river, and
things are kept which thou knowest not: thy justice as the waves of the sea,
7 They are created now, and not of old: and 19 And thy seed had been as the sand, and the
before the day, when thou heardest them not, offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof: his
lest thou shouldst say: Behold I knew them. name should not have perished, nor have been
8 Thou hast neither heard, nor known, neither destroyed from before my face.
was thy ear opened of old. For I know that trans- 20 Come forth out of Babylon, flee ye from
gressing thou wilt transgress, and I have called the Chaldeans, declare it with the voice of joy:
thee a transgressor from the womb. make this to be heard, and speak it out even
9 For my name’s sake I will remove my wrath to the ends of the earth. Say: The Lord hath
far off: and for my praise I will bridle thee, lest redeemed his servant Jacob.
thou shouldst perish. 21 They thirsted not in the desert, when he
10 Behold I have refined thee, but not as sil- led them out: he brought forth water out of the
ver, I have chosen thee in the furnace of poverty. rock for them, and he clove the rock, and the
11 For my own sake, for my own sake will I waters gushed out.
do it, that I may not be blasphemed: and I will 22 There is no peace to the wicked, saith the
not give my glory to another. Lord.
12 Hearken to me, O Jacob, and thou Israel
whom I call: I am he, I am the first, and I am
the last. Chapter 49
13 My hand also hath founded the earth, and
my right hand hath measured the heavens: I Give ear, ye islands, and hearken, ye people from
shall call them, and they shall stand together. afar. The Lord hath called me from the womb,
14 Assemble yourselves together, all you, and from the bowels of my mother he hath been
hear: who among them hath declared these mindful of my name.
things? the Lord hath loved him, he will do his 2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp
pleasure in Babylon, and his arm shall be on the sword: in the shadow of his hand he hath pro-
Chaldeans. tected me, and hath made me as a chosen arrow:
15 I, even I have spoken and called him: I have in his quiver he hath hidden me.
brought him, and his way is made prosperous. 3 And he said to me: Thou art my servant
16 Come ye near unto me, and hear this: I Israel, for in thee will I glory.
have not spoken in secret from the beginning: 4 And I said: I have laboured in vain, I have
from the time before it was done, I was there, spent my strength without cause and in vain:
and now the Lord God hath sent me, and his therefore my judgment is with the Lord, and my
spirit. work with my God.
17 Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, the Holy 5 And now saith the Lord, that formed me
One of Israel: I am the Lord thy God that teach from the womb to be his servant, that I may
thee profitable things, that govern thee in the bring back Jacob unto him, and Israel will not be
way that thou walkest. gathered together: and I am glorified in the eyes