Isaiah 48:12-18

New King James Version

God’s Ancient Plan to Redeem Israel

¹²“Listen to Me, O Jacob,
And Israel, My called:
I am He, ^(A)I am the ^(B)First,
I am also the Last.
¹³Indeed ^(C)My hand has laid the foundation of the earth,
And My right hand has stretched out the heavens;
When ^(D)I call to them,
They stand up together.

¹⁴“All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear!
Who among them has declared these things?
^(E)The Lord loves him;
^(F)He shall do His pleasure on Babylon,
And His arm shall be against the Chaldeans.
¹⁵I, even I, have spoken;
Yes, ^(G)I have called him,
I have brought him, and his way will prosper.

¹⁶“Come near to Me, hear this:
^(H)I have not spoken in secret from the beginning;
From the time that it was, I was there.
And now ^(I)the Lord God and His Spirit
^[a]Have sent Me.”

¹⁷Thus says ^(J)the Lord, your Redeemer,
The Holy One of Israel:
“I am the Lord your God,
Who teaches you to profit,
^(K)Who leads you by the way you should go.
¹⁸^(L)Oh, that you had heeded My commandments!
^(M)Then your peace would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.