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Isaiah Chapter 48

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In Isaiah 48 the prophet calls Israel back to the covenant God made with them, stressing that God is their loving and faithful protector. He warns that the people have broken the covenant and will face judgment, yet he promises restoration and a new beginning.

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(1) Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
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Genesis 32:28Genesis 35:10II Kings 17:34John 1:47Romans 2:17Romans 2:28Romans 2:29Romans 9:6Romans 9:8Revelation 2:9Revelation 3:9Numbers 24:7

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Genesis 1:6Joshua 3:13Ezekiel 47:4Psalms 119:142Jeremiah 4:2Romans 9:30

(2) For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.
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Isaiah 52:1Isaiah 64:10Isaiah 64:11Nehemiah 11:1Nehemiah 11:18Psalms 48:1Psalms 87:3Daniel 9:24Matthew 4:5Matthew 27:53Revelation 11:2Revelation 21:2

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Isaiah 3:1Zechariah 1:3

(3) I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.
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Isaiah 41:22Isaiah 42:9Isaiah 43:9Isaiah 44:7Isaiah 44:8Isaiah 45:21Isaiah 46:9Isaiah 46:10Isaiah 10:12Isaiah 10:13Isaiah 10:14Isaiah 10:15

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Isaiah 48:5Ezekiel 16:55

(4) Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
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Isaiah 46:12Psalms 78:8Zechariah 7:11Zechariah 7:12Jeremiah 5:3Ezekiel 3:4Ezekiel 3:5Ezekiel 3:6Ezekiel 3:7Daniel 5:20Romans 2:5Hebrews 3:13

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I Chronicles 29:2Isaiah 60:17Daniel 2:40Daniel 2:41

(5) I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
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Isaiah 48:3Isaiah 44:7Isaiah 46:10Luke 1:70Acts 15:18Isaiah 42:8Isaiah 42:9Jeremiah 44:17Jeremiah 44:18

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Leviticus 26:1Habakkuk 2:18Judges 17:3Judges 17:4Judges 18:14Judges 18:17

(6) Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.
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Psalms 107:43Jeremiah 2:31Micah 6:9Isaiah 21:10Isaiah 43:8Isaiah 43:9Isaiah 43:10Psalms 40:9Psalms 40:10Psalms 71:15Psalms 71:16Psalms 71:17

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I Samuel 15:19Isaiah 57:9

(7) They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
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Isaiah 48:5Genesis 1:27Obadiah 1:12

(8) Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
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Isaiah 6:9Isaiah 6:10Isaiah 26:11Isaiah 29:10Isaiah 29:11Isaiah 42:19Isaiah 42:20Jeremiah 5:21Matthew 13:13Matthew 13:14Matthew 13:15John 12:39

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Isaiah 33:1Ezekiel 16:4John 21:18Job 14:13

(9) For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
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Isaiah 48:11Isaiah 37:35Isaiah 43:25Joshua 7:9I Samuel 12:22Psalms 25:11Psalms 79:9Psalms 106:8Psalms 143:11Jeremiah 14:7Ezekiel 20:9Ezekiel 20:14

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Psalms 143:11Psalms 113:1Psalms 135:1Psalms 148:1Psalms 150:1

(10) Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
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Isaiah 1:25Isaiah 1:26Job 23:10Psalms 66:10Proverbs 17:3Jeremiah 9:7Ezekiel 20:38Ezekiel 22:18Ezekiel 22:19Ezekiel 22:20Ezekiel 22:21Ezekiel 22:22

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Exodus 38:17

(11) For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.
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Isaiah 52:5Numbers 14:15Numbers 14:16Deuteronomy 32:26Deuteronomy 32:27Ezekiel 20:9Ezekiel 20:39Romans 2:24Isaiah 48:5Isaiah 42:8John 5:23

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I Kings 11:13I Kings 11:32II Kings 19:34II Kings 20:6Psalms 69:6Psalms 143:11

(12) Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
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Isaiah 34:1Isaiah 46:3Isaiah 49:1Isaiah 51:1Isaiah 51:4Isaiah 51:7Isaiah 55:3Proverbs 7:24Proverbs 8:32Matthew 20:16Romans 1:6Romans 8:28

(13) Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
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Isaiah 42:5Isaiah 45:18Exodus 20:11Psalms 102:25Hebrews 1:10Hebrews 1:11Hebrews 1:12Isaiah 40:12Isaiah 40:22Job 37:18Isaiah 40:26Psalms 119:89

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Psalms 102:25Psalms 148:4Hebrews 1:10

(14) All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
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Isaiah 41:22Isaiah 43:9Isaiah 44:7Isaiah 45:20Isaiah 45:21Isaiah 45:1Isaiah 45:2Isaiah 45:3Mark 10:21Isaiah 13:4Isaiah 13:5Isaiah 13:17

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Isaiah 8:9Ezekiel 39:17Joel 3:11I Samuel 20:17Malachi 1:2Jeremiah 21:4

(15) I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
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Joshua 1:8Psalms 45:4Ezekiel 1:2

(16) Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
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Isaiah 48:3Isaiah 48:4Isaiah 48:5Isaiah 48:6Isaiah 45:19John 18:20Isaiah 11:1Isaiah 11:2Isaiah 11:3Isaiah 11:4Isaiah 11:5Isaiah 61:1

(17) Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
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Isaiah 48:20Isaiah 43:14Isaiah 44:6Isaiah 44:7Isaiah 44:8Isaiah 44:9Isaiah 44:10Isaiah 44:11Isaiah 44:12Isaiah 44:13Isaiah 44:14Isaiah 44:15

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Obadiah 1:12

(18) O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
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Deuteronomy 5:29Deuteronomy 32:29Psalms 81:13Psalms 81:14Psalms 81:15Psalms 81:16Matthew 23:37Luke 19:41Luke 19:42Isaiah 32:15Isaiah 32:16Isaiah 32:17

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Genesis 15:18Exodus 7:18Exodus 7:21Joshua 12:2Joshua 17:9Judges 5:21

(19) Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
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Isaiah 10:22Genesis 13:16Genesis 22:17Jeremiah 33:22Hosea 1:10Romans 9:27Isaiah 48:9Isaiah 9:14Isaiah 14:22Joshua 7:9Ruth 4:10I Kings 9:7

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Genesis 22:17Genesis 26:4Isaiah 61:9Jeremiah 33:26

(20) Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
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Isaiah 52:11Jeremiah 50:8Jeremiah 51:6Jeremiah 51:45Zechariah 2:6Zechariah 2:7Revelation 18:4Isaiah 12:1Isaiah 26:1Isaiah 45:22Isaiah 45:23Isaiah 49:13

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Isaiah 51:11Jeremiah 50:28

(21) And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
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Isaiah 30:25Isaiah 35:6Isaiah 35:7Isaiah 41:17Isaiah 41:18Isaiah 43:19Isaiah 43:20Isaiah 49:10Jeremiah 31:9Exodus 17:6Numbers 20:11Nehemiah 9:15

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Genesis 1:6Joshua 3:13Ezekiel 47:4Psalms 78:16Psalms 78:20Psalms 105:41

(22) There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.
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Isaiah 57:21Job 15:20Job 15:21Job 15:22Job 15:23Job 15:24Luke 19:42Romans 3:17

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