³ “The former things ^(E)I declared of old;
    they went out from my mouth, and I announced them;
    then suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.
⁴ Because I know that ^(F)you are obstinate,
    and your neck is an iron sinew
    and your forehead brass,
^5 (G)I declared them to you from of old,
    before they came to pass I announced them to you,
lest you should say, ^(H)‘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 ^(I)I announce to you new things,
    hidden things that you have not known.
⁷ They are created now, not long ago;
    before today you have never heard of them,
    lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
⁸ You 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 ^(J)from before birth you were called a rebel.

^9 (K)“For my name's sake I defer my anger;
    for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you,
    that I may not cut you off.
¹⁰ Behold, I have refined you, ^(L)but not as silver;
    ^(M)I have tried^[a] you in the furnace of affliction.
^11 (N)For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it,
    for how should my name^[b] be profaned?
    ^(O)My glory I will not give to another.

¹⁴ “Assemble, all of you, and listen!
    ^(T)Who among them has declared these things?
The Lord loves him;
    ^(U)he shall perform his purpose on Babylon,
    and his arm shall be against ^(V)the Chaldeans.
^15 (W)I, even I, have spoken and called him;
    I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.
^16 (X)Draw near to me, hear this:
    from the beginning I have not spoken in secret,
    from the time it came to be I have been there.”
And now ^(Y)the Lord God has sent me, and his Spirit.

¹⁷ Thus 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.
^18 (Z)Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments!
    ^(AA)Then your peace would have been like a river,
    and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
^19 (AB)your 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.”

^20 (AC)Go out from Babylon, flee from ^(AD)Chaldea,
    declare this ^(AE)with a shout of joy, proclaim it,
send it out to the end of the earth;
    say, ^(AF)“The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
^21 (AG)They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts;
    ^(AH)he made water flow for them from the rock;
    he split the rock and the water gushed out.

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