¹Hear this, house of Jacob, those who are called by the name of Israel, and who came out from the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Yahweh and mention the God of Israel, but not in truth, and not in righteousness.

²For from the holy city they are called, and they lean on the God of Israel — Yahweh of hosts is his name.

³The first things I declared from long ago, and from my mouth they went out, and I let them be heard; suddenly I acted, and they came.

⁴Because I knew that you are hard, and your neck is a sinew of iron, and your forehead is bronze,

⁵I declared them to you from long ago; before it came, I made you hear them, lest you say, "My idol did them, and my image and my molten image commanded them."

⁶You have heard it; look at all of it. And you — will you not declare it? From now I let you hear new things, and things kept secret that you have not known.

⁷Now they have been created, and not long ago; and before today you did not hear them, lest you say, Look, I knew them.

⁸Neither did you hear, nor did you know, nor was your ear opened from long ago; for I knew that you would surely act treacherously, and you were called a rebel from the womb.

⁹For the sake of my name I will make my anger long, and for my praise I will hold back for you, so as not to cut you off.

¹⁰Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

¹¹For my own sake, for my own sake I will act; for how will it be profaned? And my weightiness I will not give to another.

¹²Listen to me, Jacob, and Israel, my called one: I am he; I am first, and I am last as well.

¹³Indeed, my hand founded the land, and my right hand spread out the skies; I call to them, and they stand together.

¹⁴Gather together, all of you, and hear: who among them declared these things? Yahweh loved him; he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm on the Chaldeans.

¹⁵I, I spoke; I also called him; I brought him, and his way will succeed.

¹⁶Draw near to me, hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time it came to be, I was there. And now the Adonai Yahweh has sent me, and his breath.

¹⁷Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer, the holy one of Israel: I am Yahweh, your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.

¹⁸If only you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your wholeness would have been like the river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

¹⁹Your seed would have been like the sand, and the descendants of your inward parts like its grains; his name would not be cut off, nor be wiped out from before my face.

²⁰Go forth from Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans! With the sound of a ringing cry, declare this, make it heard; bring it out to the end of the land; say, "Yahweh has redeemed his slave Jacob."

²¹They did not thirst when he led them through the ruins; he made water flow from the rock for them; he split open the rock, and waters flowed out.

²²There is no wholeness, says Yahweh, for the wicked.