⁴ As for ^(G)our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts is His name,
The Holy One of Israel.

⁵ “Sit in ^(H)silence, and go into darkness,
O daughter of the Chaldeans;
^(I)For you shall no longer be called
The Lady of Kingdoms.
^6 (J)I was angry with My people;
^(K)I have profaned My inheritance,
And given them into your hand.
You showed them no mercy;
^(L)On the elderly you laid your yoke very heavily.
⁷ And you said, ‘I shall be ^(M)a lady forever,’
So that you did not ^(N)take these things to heart,
^(O)Nor remember the latter end of them.

⁸ “Therefore hear this now, you who are given to pleasures,
Who dwell securely,
Who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me;
I shall not sit as a widow,
Nor shall I know the loss of children’;
⁹ But these two things shall come to you
^(P)In a moment, in one day:
The loss of children, and widowhood.
They shall come upon you in their fullness
Because of the multitude of your sorceries,
For the great abundance of your enchantments.

¹⁰ “For you have trusted in your wickedness;
You have said, ‘No one ^(Q)sees me’;
Your wisdom and your knowledge have ^[b]warped you;
And you have said in your heart,
‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’
¹¹ Therefore evil shall come upon you;
You shall not know from where it arises.
And trouble shall fall upon you;
You will not be able ^[c]to put it off.
And ^(R)desolation shall come upon you ^(S)suddenly,
Which you shall not know.

¹² “Stand now with your enchantments
And the multitude of your sorceries,
In which you have labored from your youth—
Perhaps you will be able to profit,
Perhaps you will prevail.
^13 (T)You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels;
Let now ^(U)the^[d] astrologers, the stargazers,
And ^[e]the monthly prognosticators
Stand up and save you
From what shall come upon you.
¹⁴ Behold, they shall be ^(V)as stubble,
The fire shall ^(W)burn them;
They shall not deliver themselves
From the power of the flame;
It shall not be a coal to be warmed by,
Nor a fire to sit before!
¹⁵ Thus shall they be to you
With whom you have labored,
^(X)Your merchants from your youth;
They shall wander each one to his ^[f]quarter.
No one shall save you.

³ “I have ^(AB)declared the former things from the beginning;
They went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to hear it.
Suddenly I did them, ^(AC)and they came to pass.
⁴ Because I knew that you were ^[g]obstinate,
And ^(AD)your neck was an iron sinew,
And your brow bronze,
⁵ Even from the beginning I have declared it to you;
Before it came to pass I proclaimed it to you,
Lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them,
And my carved image and my molded image
Have commanded them.’

⁶ “You have heard;
See all this.
And will you not declare it?
I have made you hear new things from this time,
Even hidden things, and you did not know them.
⁷ They are created now and not from the beginning;
And before this day you have not heard them,
Lest you should say, ‘Of course I knew them.’
⁸ Surely you did not hear,
Surely you did not know;
Surely from long ago your ear was not opened.
For I knew that you would deal very treacherously,
And were called ^(AE)a transgressor from the womb.

⁹ “For^(AF) My name’s sake ^(AG)I will ^[h]defer My anger,
And for My praise I will restrain it from you,
So that I do not cut you off.
¹⁰ Behold, ^(AH)I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tested you in the ^(AI)furnace of affliction.
¹¹ For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it;
For ^(AJ)how should My name be profaned?
And ^(AK)I will not give My glory to another.

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

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

¹⁷ Thus says ^(AU)the Lord, your Redeemer,
The Holy One of Israel:
“I am the Lord your God,
Who teaches you to profit,
^(AV)Who leads you by the way you should go.
^18 (AW)Oh, that you had heeded My commandments!
^(AX)Then your peace would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
^19 (AY)Your descendants also would have been like the sand,
And the offspring of your body like the grains of sand;
His name would not have been cut off
Nor destroyed from before Me.”

^20 (AZ)Go forth from Babylon!
Flee from the Chaldeans!
With a voice of singing,
Declare, proclaim this,
Utter it to the end of the earth;
Say, “The Lord has ^(BA)redeemed
His servant Jacob!”
²¹ And they ^(BB)did not thirst
When He led them through the deserts;
He ^(BC)caused the waters to flow from the rock for them;
He also split the rock, and the waters gushed out.

²² “There^(BD) is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.”

⁷ The works of His hands are ^(A)verity^[a] and justice;
All His precepts are sure.
^8 (B)They stand fast forever and ever,
And are ^(C)done in truth and uprightness.
^9 (D)He has sent redemption to His people;
He has commanded His covenant forever:
^(E)Holy and awesome is His name.

^10 (F)The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;
A good understanding have all those who do His commandments.
His praise endures forever.