Isaiah 48

shimu-zot bet-ya'aqov hanniqra'im beshem yisra'el umimme yehudah yatsa'u hannishba'im beshem Adonai uvelohe yisra'el yazkiru lo ve'emet velo vitsdaqah

Listen to this, O House of Jacob, Who bear the name Israel And have issued from the waters of Judah, Who swear by the name of GOD And invoke the God of Israel— Though not in truth and sincerity—

ki-me'ir haqqodesh niqra'u ve'al-elohe yisra'el nismakhu Adonai tseva'ot shemo

For you are called after the Holy City And you do lean on the God of Israel, Whose name is GOD of Hosts:

harishonot me'az higgadti umippi yatse'u ve'ashmi'em pitom asiti vattavonah

Long ago, I foretold things that happened, From My mouth they issued, and I announced them; Suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.

middati ki qasheh attah vegid barzel orpekha umitskhakha nekhushah

Because I know how stubborn you are (Your neck is like an iron sinew And your forehead bronze),

va'aggid lekha me'az beterem tavo hishmatikha pen-tomar otsbi asam ufisli veniski tsivvam

Therefore I told you long beforehand, Announced things to you ere they happened— That you might not say, “My idol caused them, My carved and molten images ordained them.”

shamata khazeh kullah ve'attem halo taggidu hishmatikha khadashot me'attah unetsurot velo yedatam

You have heard all this; look, must you not acknowledge it? As of now, I announce to you new things, Well-guarded secrets you did not know.

attah nivre'u velo me'az velifne-yom velo shematam pen-tomar hinneh yedatin

Only now are they created, and not of old; Before today you had not heard them; You cannot say, “I knew them already.”

gam lo-shamata gam lo yadata gam me'az lo-fittekhah oznekha ki yadati bagod tivgod ufoshea mibbeten qora lakh

You had never heard, you had never known, Your ears were not opened of old. Though I know that you are treacherous, That you were called a rebel from birth,

lema'an shemi a'arikh appi utehillati ekhetom-lakh levilti hakhritekha

For the sake of My name I control My wrath; To My own glory, I am patient with you, And I will not destroy you.

hinneh tseraftikha velo vekhasef bekhartikha bekhur oni

See, I refine you, but not as silver; I test you in the furnace of affliction.

lema'ani lema'ani e'eseh ki ekh yekhal ukhevodi le'akher lo-etten

For My sake, My own sake, do I act— Lest [My name] be dishonored! I will not give My glory to another.

shema elay ya'aqov veyisra'el meqora'i ani-hu ani rishon af ani akharon

Listen to Me, O Jacob, Israel, whom I have called: I am the One—I am the first, And I am the last as well.

af-yadi yasedah erets vimini tippekhah shamayim qore ani alehem ya'amdu yakhdav

My own hand founded the earth, My right hand spread out the skies. I call unto them, let them stand up.

hiqqavetsu khullekhem ushema'u mi vahem higgid et-elleh Adonai ahevo ya'aseh kheftso bevavel uzero'o kasdim

Assemble, all of you, and listen! Who among you foretold these things: “He whom GOD loves Shall work the divine will against Babylon, And, with divine might, against Chaldea”?

ani ani dibbarti af-qerativ havi'otiv vehitsliakh darko

I, I predicted, and I called him; I have brought him and he shall succeed in his mission.

qirvu elay shimu-zot lo merosh basseter dibbarti me'et heyotah sham ani ve'attah adonay Elohim shelakhani verukho

Draw near to Me and hear this: From the beginning, I did not speak in secret; From the time anything existed, I was there. “And now the Sovereign GOD has sent me, endowed with divine spirit.”

koh-amar Adonai go'alkha qedosh yisra'el ani Adonai elohekha melammedkha leho'il madrikhekha bederekh telekh

Thus said GOD your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: I the ETERNAL One am your God, Instructing you for your own benefit. Guiding you in the way you should go.

lu hiqshavta lemitsvotay vayehi khannahar shelomekha vetsidqatekha kegalle hayyam

If only you would heed My commands! Then your prosperity would be like a river, Your triumph like the waves of the sea.

vayehi khakhol zarekha vetse'etsa'e me'ekha kimotayw lo-yikkaret velo-yishamed shemo millefanay

Your offspring would be as many as the sand, Their issue as many as its grains. Their name would never be cut off Or obliterated from before Me.

tse'u mibbavel birkhu mikkasdim beqol rinnah haggidu hashmi'u zot hotsi'uha ad-qetseh ha'arets imru ga'al Adonai avdo ya'aqov

Go forth from Babylon, Flee from Chaldea! Declare this with loud shouting, Announce this, Bring out the word to the ends of the earth! Say: “GOD has redeemed Jacob—God’s servant!”

velo tsame'u bokhoravot holikham mayim mitsur hizzil lamo vayyivqa-tsur vayyazuvu mayim

They have known no thirst, Though they were led through parched places; [God] made water flow for them from the rock, Cleaving the rock so that water gushed forth.

en shalom amar Adonai laresha'im

There is no safety—said GOD—for the wicked.