48 Second John

13 Isaiah 48:1-2
¹Hear these things, house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and are come out from the loins of Judah, who swear by the name of Yahvah and make mention of the god of Israel, but not in truth nor in righteousness.
²For they are called out of the holy city and they rely on the god of Israel; Yahvah of hosts is his name.

13 Isaiah 48:3-5
³I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them to you; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.
⁴Because I knew that you are obstinate and your neck is an iron sinew and your brow brass;
⁵I have made them known to you from of old; before they came to pass I declared them to you, lest you should say, My idols did them; and my graven images and my molten images have saved me.

13 Isaiah 48:6-8
⁶I have heard and seen all these things; and will you not declare them? I have proclaimed to you new things from this time, even hidden things, and you did not know them.
⁷They are created now, and not of old; even before the day when you did not hear of them, lest you should say, Look, I knew them.
⁸Yes, you have neither heard nor known of them; nor were your ears opened of old; for I knew that you surely would lie and that you were called a wicked one from the womb.

13 Isaiah 48:9-11
⁹For my name's sake I will defer my anger, and for my praise I will keep you, and I will not destroy you.
¹⁰Look, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have purified you in the furnace of affliction.
¹¹For my own sake, I will do it, that my name may not be polluted and that I may not give my glory to another.

13 Isaiah 48:12-19
¹²Listen to me, Jacob and Israel, whom I called; I am he; I am the first, I am also the last.
¹³My hand has laid the foundations of the land, and my right hand has stretched out the skies; when I call to them, they stand up together.

¹⁴Assemble, all of you, and listen; who is there among you who can declare these things? Yahvah has loved him, that he may do his will on Babylon and on the land of the Chaldeans.
¹⁵I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have also called him; I have brought him and I have made his way prosperous.
¹⁶Come near to me, listen to this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the creation, there am I; and now Master Yahvah, and his spirit, has sent me.

¹⁷Yahvah, your savior, the holy one of Israel says: I am Yahvah your god who teaches you not to do wrong, who leads you by the way that you should go.
¹⁸That you had listened to my commandments. Then your peace would have been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea;
¹⁹your sons would have also been as the sand, and the offspring of your loins like its gravel; their name would not perish nor be destroyed from before me.

13 Isaiah 48:20-21
²⁰Go forth from Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans; with a voice of singing declare this, proclaim it, and publish it even to the ends of the land; say, Yahvah has saved his servant Jacob.
²¹They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he bored through the rock, and the waters gushed out.

13 Isaiah 48:22-49:0
²²There is no peace to the wicked says Yahvah.