1. Hear ye this -- O house of Jacob, Ye who call yourselves by the name of Israel, Yea from the waters of Judah, came they forth, -- Who swear by the name of Yahweh, And, by the God of Israel, call to remembrance -- Not in truth, nor in righteousness;
2. For of the holy city, do they call themselves, And on the God of Israel, do they stay themselves, -- Yahweh of hosts, is his name.
3. Things in advance, of old, I declared, Yea out of mine own mouth, came they forth, that I might let them be known, -- Suddenly, I wrought and they came to pass.
4. Because I knew that -- Obstinate, thou wast, -- And, a sinew of iron, was thy neck, And thy brow, brazen,
5. therefore told I thee -- in time past, Ere yet it came, I let thee hear, -- Lest thou shouldest say Mine idol wrought them, Yea, my carved image and my molten image, commanded them!
6. Thou hast heard -- see it whole, And will, ye, not tell? I have let thee hear new things -- from the present time, Even secrets which ye knew not.
7. Now, are they created, and not in time past, And, before to-day, thou hadst not heard of them, -- Lest thou shouldest say, Lo! I knew them!
8. Nay! thou hadst not heard, Nay! thou hadst not known, Nay! in time past, thine ear, was not opened, -- For I knew that thou, wouldst be treacherous, Yea a transgressor from birth, hast thou been called.
9. For the sake of mine own Name, will I defer mine anger, And for my praise, will I restrain myself towards thee, -- So as not to cut thee off.
10. Lo! I have refined thee, but not as silver, -- I have tested thee, in a smelting-pot of affliction.
11. For mine own sake -- for mine own sake, will I effectually work For how should it be profaned? And, my glory -- to another, will I not give.
12. Hearken unto me O Jacob, And Israel, my called one, -- I, am, the Same I, the first, yea, I, the last:
13. Surely, mine own hand, founded the earth, And, my right hand, stretched out the heavens, -- While I was calling unto them, they stood forth, at once
14. Assemble yourselves -- all of you and hear, Who among them, hath told these things? he whom Yahweh loveth, will execute -- His pleasure, on Babylon, And his stroke on the Chaldeans.
15. I -- I, have spoken, Yea I have called him, -- I have brought him in, and he shall make prosperous his way.
16. Draw ye near unto me -- hear ye this, Not in advance in secret, have I spoken, From the very time it cometh into being, there, am I, -- And, now, My Lord Yahweh hath sent me and his spirit.
17. Thus saith Yahweh -- Thy Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel, -- I -- Yahweh, am thy God, Teaching thee to profit, Guiding thee in the way thou shouldest go.
18. Oh! that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments, -- Then had been, like a river, thy prosperity, And, thy righteousness, like the waves of the sea:
19. Then had been, like the sand, thy seed, And, the offspring of thy body, like the grains thereof, -- Neither cut off nor destroyed had been his name from before me.
20. Come ye forth out of Babylon, Flee from among the Chaldeans, With triumphant voice, tell ye -- let this be heard, Let it go forth as far as the end of the earth, -- Say ye -- Yahweh hath redeemed his servant Jacob!
21. And they thirsted not, when, through dry places, he led them, Waters out of the rock, caused hero flow out to them, -- Yea be cleft a rock and, there gushed out waters:
22. No well-being, saith Yahweh to the lawless,