Isaiah 48 (NET)

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Isaiah 48:1¹Listen to this, O family of Jacob, you who are called by the name ‘Israel,’ and are descended from Judah, who take oaths in the name of the Lord, and invoke the God of Israel— but not in an honest and just manner.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 4:2 Ps 68:26 Deut 6:13 Gen 32:28 Isa 1:10-14 Isa 65:16 Jer 5:2 Jer 7:9-10 Matt 15:8-9 1 Tim 4:2

Isaiah 48:2²Indeed, they live in the holy city; they trust in the God of Israel, whose name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mic 3:11 Isa 10:20 Isa 52:1 Rom 2:17 Jer 21:2 Matt 27:53 1 Sam 4:3-5 Dan 9:24 Isa 47:4 Isa 51:13

Isaiah 48:3³“I announced events beforehand, I issued the decrees and made the predictions; suddenly I acted and they came to pass.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 42:9 Isa 41:22 Josh 21:45 Isa 44:7-8 Isa 45:21 Isa 43:9 Isa 46:9-10 Josh 23:14-15 Isa 37:7 Isa 10:33-34

Isaiah 48:4⁴I did this because I know how stubborn you are. Your neck muscles are like iron and your forehead like bronze.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 7:51 Exod 32:9 Zech 7:11-12 Prov 29:1 Ezek 3:4-9 Rom 2:5 Jer 19:15 Jer 5:3 Deut 31:27 Exod 33:5

Isaiah 48:5⁵I announced them to you beforehand; before they happened, I predicted them for you, so you could never say, ‘My image did these things, my idol, my cast image, decreed them.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 48:3 Luke 1:70 Acts 15:18 Jer 44:15-18 Isa 42:8-9 Isa 44:7 Isa 46:10

Isaiah 48:6⁶You have heard; now look at all the evidence! Will you not admit that what I say is true? From this point on I am announcing to you new events that are previously unrevealed and you do not know about.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 4:1 Isa 42:9 Rom 16:25-26 Isa 43:19 Isa 43:8-10 John 15:15 Matt 10:27 1 Cor 2:9 1 Pet 1:10-12 Acts 1:8

Isaiah 48:7⁷Now they come into being, not in the past; before today you did not hear about them, so you could not say, ‘Yes, I know about them.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Isaiah 48:8⁸You did not hear, you do not know, you were not told beforehand. For I know that you are very deceitful; you were labeled a rebel from birth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 58:3 Hos 5:7 Ezek 16:3-5 Isa 42:19-20 Jer 6:10 John 12:39-40 Mal 2:11 Matt 13:13-15 Deut 9:7-24 Eph 2:3

Isaiah 48:9⁹For the sake of my reputation I hold back my anger; for the sake of my prestige I restrain myself from destroying you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 79:9 Isa 37:35 Ps 106:8 Ps 143:11 Ps 78:38 1 Sam 12:22 Dan 9:17-19 Ezek 20:14 Ezek 20:22 Ezek 20:44

Isaiah 48:10¹⁰Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have purified you in the furnace of misery.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Pet 4:12 Prov 17:3 Job 23:10 Heb 12:10-11 Ps 66:10 1 Pet 1:7 Jer 9:7 Mal 3:2-3 Deut 4:20 Rev 3:19

Isaiah 48:11¹¹For my sake alone I will act, for how can I allow my name to be defiled? I will not share my glory with anyone else!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 42:8 Ezek 20:9 Ezek 20:14 Isa 37:35 1 Sam 12:22 Ezek 20:22 Isa 43:25 Jer 14:7 Ezek 20:44 Num 14:15-16

Isaiah 48:12¹²Listen to me, O Jacob, Israel, whom I summoned. I am the one; I am present at the very beginning and at the very end.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 41:4 Rev 1:8 Rev 22:13 Isa 44:6 Rev 17:14 Rom 8:28 Isa 43:11 Isa 55:3 1 Pet 2:9 Rev 2:8

Isaiah 48:13¹³Yes, my hand founded the earth; my right hand spread out the sky. I summon them; they stand together.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 1:10-12 Ps 102:25 Exod 20:11 Isa 45:18 Isa 40:26 Isa 42:5 Isa 40:12 Ps 119:89-91 Isa 40:22 Ps 148:5-8

Isaiah 48:14¹⁴All of you, gather together and listen! Who among them announced these things? The Lord ’s ally will carry out his desire against Babylon; he will exert his power against the Babylonians.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 43:9 Isa 13:17-18 Jer 50:21-29 Isa 13:4-5 Isa 41:22 Isa 45:20-21 Isa 46:10-11 Jer 51:20-24 Isa 44:28-45:3 Isa 44:7

Isaiah 48:15¹⁵I, I have spoken— yes, I have summoned him; I lead him and he will succeed.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 1:8 Isa 45:1-2 Ps 45:4 Ezek 1:2

Isaiah 48:16¹⁶Approach me—listen to this! From the very first I have not spoken in secret; when it happens, I am there.” So now, the Sovereign Lord has sent me, accompanied by his Spirit.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 18:20 John 20:21-22 Isa 45:19 John 3:34 Isa 11:1-5 Isa 61:1-3 Luke 4:18 Isa 48:3-6 Zech 2:8-11 Isa 41:1

Isaiah 48:17¹⁷This is what the Lord, your Protector, says, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you how to succeed, who leads you in the way you should go.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 32:8 Ps 25:12 Job 22:21-22 Deut 8:17-18 Isa 30:20 Ps 73:24 Isa 54:13 Job 36:22 John 6:45 Ps 25:8-9

Isaiah 48:18¹⁸If only you had obeyed my commandments, prosperity would have flowed to you like a river, deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 5:29 Isa 66:12 Ps 119:165 Ps 81:13-16 Deut 32:29 Isa 45:8 Luke 19:41-42 Ps 36:8 Amos 5:24 Isa 32:15-18

Isaiah 48:19¹⁹Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, and your children like its granules. Their name would not have been cut off and eliminated from my presence.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 10:22 Gen 22:17 Hos 1:10 Jer 33:22 Rom 9:27 1 Kgs 9:7 Gen 13:16 Isa 14:22 Isa 48:9 Isa 56:5