Isaiah 48

New American Standard Bible

Israel’s Obstinacy

48 “^(A)Hear this, house of Jacob, who are named Israel
And who came from the ^(B)waters of Judah,
Who ^(C)swear by the name of the Lord
And invoke the God of Israel,
But not in truth nor in ^(D)righteousness.
²For they name themselves after the ^(E)holy city,
And ^(F)lean on the God of Israel;
The Lord of armies is His name.
³I ^(G)declared the former things long ago,
And they went out of My mouth, and I proclaimed them.
^(H)Suddenly I acted, and they ^(I)came to pass.
⁴Because I know that you are ^[a]^(J)obstinate,
And your ^(K)neck is an iron tendon
And your ^(L)forehead bronze,
⁵Therefore I declared them to you long ago,
Before ^[b]they took place I proclaimed them to you,
So that you would not say, ‘My ^(M)idol has done them,
And my carved image and my cast metal image have commanded them.’
⁶You have heard; look at all this.
And you, will you not declare it?
I proclaim to you ^(N)new things from this time,
Hidden things which you have not known.
⁷They are created now and not long ago;
And before today you have not heard them,
So that you will not say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
⁸You have not ^(O)heard, you have not known.
Even from long ago your ear has not been open,
Because I knew that you would deal very treacherously;
And you have been called a ^[c]^(P)rebel from ^[d]birth.
⁹^(Q)For the sake of My name I ^(R)delay My wrath,
And for My praise I restrain it for you,
In order not to cut you off.
¹⁰Behold, I have refined you, but ^(S)not as silver;
I have tested you in the ^(T)furnace of affliction.
¹¹^(U)For My own sake, for My own sake, I will act;
For how can My name be profaned?
And I will not give My ^(V)glory to another.

Rescue Promised

¹²“Listen to Me, Jacob, Israel ^[e]whom I called;
^(W)I am He, ^(X)I am the first, I am also the last.
¹³Assuredly My hand ^(Y)founded the earth,
And My right hand spread out the heavens;
When I ^(Z)call to them, they stand together.
¹⁴^(AA)Assemble, all of you, and listen!
^(AB)Who among them has declared these things?
The Lord loves him; he will ^(AC)carry out His good pleasure against ^(AD)Babylon,
And His arm will be against the Chaldeans.
¹⁵I, yes I, have spoken; indeed I have ^(AE)called him,
I have brought him, and He will make his ways successful.
¹⁶^(AF)Come near to Me, listen to this:
From the beginning I have ^(AG)not spoken in secret,
^(AH)From the time it took place, I was there.
And now ^(AI)the Lord ^[f]God has sent Me, and His Spirit.”

¹⁷This is what the Lord says, He who is your ^(AJ)Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:

“I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to benefit,
Who ^(AK)leads you in the way you should go.
¹⁸If only you had ^(AL)paid attention to My commandments!
Then your ^[g]^(AM)well-being would have been like a river,
And your ^(AN)righteousness like the waves of the sea.
¹⁹Your ^[h]^(AO)descendants would have been like the sand,
And ^[i]your offspring like its grains;
^(AP)Their name would never be eliminated or destroyed from My presence.”

²⁰^(AQ)Go out from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans!
Declare with the sound of ^(AR)joyful shouting, proclaim this,
^(AS)Send it out to the end of the earth;
Say, “^(AT)The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob.”
²¹They did not ^(AU)thirst when He led them through the deserts.
He ^(AV)made the water flow out of the rock for them;
He split the rock and ^(AW)the water gushed out.
²²“^(AX)There is no peace for the wicked,” says the Lord.

Footnotes

Isaiah 48:4 Or harsh
Isaiah 48:5 Lit it
Isaiah 48:8 Or transgressor
Isaiah 48:8 Lit the belly
Isaiah 48:12 Lit My called one
Isaiah 48:16 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
Isaiah 48:18 Or peace
Isaiah 48:19 Lit seed
Isaiah 48:19 Lit the offspring of your inward parts

Mark 9:33-50

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³³^(A)They came to Capernaum; and when He was in ^(B)the house, He began to question them: “What were you discussing on the way?” ³⁴But they kept silent, for on the way ^(C)they had discussed with one another which of them was the greatest. ³⁵And sitting down, He called the twelve and *said to them, “^(D)If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.” ³⁶And He took a child and placed him among them, and taking him in His arms, He said to them, ³⁷“^(E)Whoever ^[a]receives ^[b]one child like this in My name ^[c]receives Me; and whoever ^[d]receives Me does not ^[e]receive Me, but Him who sent Me.”

Dire Warnings

³⁸^(F)John said to Him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and ^(G)we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” ³⁹But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him, for there is no one who will perform a miracle in My name, and be able soon afterward to speak evil of Me. ⁴⁰^(H)For the one who is not against us is ^[f]for us. ⁴¹For ^(I)whoever gives you a cup of water to drink ^[g]because of your name as followers of Christ, truly I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward.

⁴²“^(J)Whoever causes one of these ^[h]little ones who believe in Me to ^[i]sin, it is better for him if a heavy millstone is hung around his neck and he ^[j]is thrown into the sea. ⁴³And ^(K)if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed, than, having your two hands, to go into ^[k]^(L)hell, into the ^(M)unquenchable fire.^[l] ⁴⁵And if your foot is causing you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life without a foot, than, having your two feet, to be thrown into ^[m]^(N)hell.^[n] ⁴⁷And ^(O)if your eye is causing you to sin, throw it away; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be thrown into ^[o]^(P)hell, ⁴⁸^(Q)where their worm does not die, and ^(R)the fire is not extinguished. ⁴⁹For everyone will be salted with fire. ⁵⁰Salt is good; but ^(S)if the salt becomes unsalty, with what will you ^[p]make it salty again? ^(T)Have salt in yourselves, and ^(U)be at peace with one another.”

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Footnotes

Mark 9:37 Or welcomes
Mark 9:37 Lit one of such children
Mark 9:37 Or welcomes
Mark 9:37 Or welcomes
Mark 9:37 Or welcome
Mark 9:40 Or on our side
Mark 9:41 Lit in a name that you are Christ’s
Mark 9:42 Or lowly
Mark 9:42 Or stumble
Mark 9:42 Lit has been thrown (intensified)
Mark 9:43 Gr Gehenna
Mark 9:43 Late mss repeat v 48 here as v 44
Mark 9:45 Gr Gehenna
Mark 9:45 Late mss repeat v 48 here as v 46; cf. note 2 v 43
Mark 9:47 Gr Gehenna
Mark 9:50 Lit season it

Isaiah 49:1-13

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Salvation Reaches to the Ends of the Earth

49 Listen to Me, you ^(A)islands,
And pay attention, you peoples from afar.
^(B)The Lord called Me from the womb;
From the ^[a]body of My mother He named Me.
²He has made My ^(C)mouth like a sharp sword,
In the ^(D)shadow of His hand He has concealed Me;
And He has also made Me a sharpened ^(E)arrow,
He has hidden Me in His quiver.
³He said to Me, “^(F)You are My Servant, Israel,
^(G)In whom I will show My glory.”
⁴But I said, “I have ^(H)labored in vain,
I have spent My strength for nothing and futility;
Nevertheless, the justice due to Me is with the Lord,
And My ^(I)reward is with My God.”

⁵And now says ^(J)the Lord, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant,
To bring Jacob back to Him, so that ^(K)Israel might be gathered to Him
(For I am ^(L)honored in the sight of the Lord,
And My God is My ^(M)strength),
⁶He says, “It is too ^[b]small a thing that You should be My Servant
To raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the ^(N)protected ones of Israel;
I will also make You a ^(O)light ^[c]of the nations
So that My salvation may ^[d]reach to the ^(P)end of the earth.”
⁷This is what the Lord, the ^(Q)Redeemer of Israel and its Holy One,
Says to the ^[e]^(R)despised One,
To the One abhorred by the nation,
To the Servant of rulers:
“^(S)Kings will see and arise,
Princes will also ^(T)bow down,
Because of the Lord who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You.”

⁸This is what the Lord says:
“At a ^(U)favorable time I answered You,
And on a day of salvation I helped You;
And I will ^(V)watch over You and ^(W)make You a covenant of the people,
To ^[f]^(X)restore the land, to give as inheritances the deserted hereditary lands;
⁹Saying to those who are ^(Y)bound, ‘^[g]Go free,’
To those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’
They will feed along the roads,
And their pasture will be on all ^(Z)bare heights.
¹⁰They will ^(AA)not hunger or thirst,
Nor will the scorching ^(AB)heat or sun strike them down;
For ^(AC)He who has compassion on them will ^(AD)lead them,
And He will guide them to ^(AE)springs of water.
¹¹I will make all ^(AF)My mountains a road,
And My ^(AG)highways will be raised up.
¹²Behold, these will come ^(AH)from afar;
And behold, these will come from the ^(AI)north and from the west,
And these from the land of Aswan.”
¹³^(AJ)Shout for joy, you heavens! And rejoice, you earth!
Break forth into joyful shouting, mountains!
For the ^(AK)Lord has comforted His people
And will ^(AL)have compassion on His afflicted.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 49:1 Lit inward parts
Isaiah 49:6 Lit light
Isaiah 49:6 Or to
Isaiah 49:6 Lit be
Isaiah 49:7 Lit despised of soul
Isaiah 49:8 Lit establish
Isaiah 49:9 Lit Go out

Revelation 21:15-22:5

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¹⁵The one who spoke with me had a ^[a]gold measuring ^(A)rod to measure the city, its ^(B)gates, and its wall. ¹⁶The city is laid out as a square, and its length is as great as the width; and he measured the city with the ^[b]rod, ^[c]twelve thousand stadia; its length, width, and height are equal. ¹⁷And he measured its wall, ^[d]144 cubits, by ^(C)human ^[e]measurements, which are also ^(D)angelic measurements. ¹⁸The material of the wall was ^(E)jasper; and the city was ^(F)pure gold, like ^[f]clear ^(G)glass. ¹⁹^(H)The foundation stones of the city wall were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation stone was ^(I)jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, ^(J)emerald; ²⁰the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, ^(K)sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. ²¹And the twelve ^(L)gates were twelve ^(M)pearls; each one of the gates was a single pearl. And the street of the city was ^(N)pure gold, like transparent ^(O)glass.

²²I saw ^(P)no ^[g]temple in it, for the ^(Q)Lord God the Almighty and the ^(R)Lamb are its ^[h]temple. ²³And the city ^(S)has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for ^(T)the glory of God has illuminated it, and its lamp is the ^(U)Lamb. ²⁴^(V)The nations will walk by its light, and the ^(W)kings of the earth ^[i]will bring their glory into it. ²⁵In the daytime (for ^(X)there will be no night there) ^(Y)its gates ^(Z)will never be closed; ²⁶and ^(AA)they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it; ²⁷and ^(AB)nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those ^[j]whose names are ^(AC)written in the Lamb’s book of life.

The River and the Tree of Life

22 And ^(AD)he showed me a ^(AE)river of the ^(AF)water of life, ^[k]clear ^(AG)as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of ^[l]the Lamb, ²in the middle of ^(AH)its street. ^(AI)On either side of the river was ^(AJ)the tree of life, bearing twelve ^[m]kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. ³^(AK)There will no longer be any curse; and ^(AL)the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will ^(AM)serve Him; ⁴they will ^(AN)see His face, and His ^(AO)name will be on their ^(AP)foreheads. ⁵And ^(AQ)there will no longer be any night; and they ^[n]will not have need ^(AR)of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illuminate them; and they will ^(AS)reign forever and ever.

Footnotes

Revelation 21:15 Lit measure, a gold reed
Revelation 21:16 Lit reed
Revelation 21:16 Possibly about 1,380 miles or 2,220 km; a Roman stadion perhaps averaged 607 ft. or 185 m
Revelation 21:17 Possibly about 216 ft. or 65 m; a cubit is about 18 in. or 45 cm
Revelation 21:17 Lit measure
Revelation 21:18 Lit pure
Revelation 21:22 Or sanctuary
Revelation 21:22 Or sanctuary
Revelation 21:24 Lit bring
Revelation 21:27 Lit who have been written
Revelation 22:1 Lit bright
Revelation 22:1 Or the Lamb. In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was
Revelation 22:2 Or crops of fruit
Revelation 22:5 Lit do not have