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SEPTEMBER 28
Your wisdom and your knowledge have And your brow bronze,
warped you; 5 Even from the beginning I have
And you have said in your heart, declared it to you;
‘I am, and there is no one else besides Before it came to pass I proclaimed it
me.’ to you,
11 Therefore evil shall come upon you; Lest you should say, ‘My idol has done
You shall not know from where it them,
arises. And my carved image and my molded
And trouble shall fall upon you; image
You will not be able to put it off. Have commanded them.’
And desolation shall come upon you 6 “You have heard;
suddenly,
Which you shall not know. See all this.
And will you not declare it?
12 I have made you hear new things from
“Stand now with your enchantments
And the multitude of your sorceries, this time,
In which you have labored from your Even hidden things, and you did not
youth— know them.
Perhaps you will be able to profit,
Perhaps you will prevail.
You are wearied in the multitude of
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your counsels;
Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, 48:6 new things. From this point onward, the
prophecies of the Messiah’s First and Second
And the monthly prognosticators Coming and the restoration of Israel have a
Stand up and save you new distinctiveness. Babylon becomes the
From what shall come upon you.
14 Behold, they shall be as stubble, Babylon of Revelation (v. 20), and God uses
Isaiah to communicate truths about the mes-
The fire shall burn them; sianic kingdom on earth and the new heavens
They shall not deliver themselves and new earth that follow it (e.g.,11:1–5;65:17).
From the power of the flame; Verse 7 indicates that God had never before
It shall not be a coal to be warmed by, revealed these features about the future.
Nor a fire to sit before!
15 Thus shall they be to you
With whom you have labored,
Your merchants from your youth; 7 They are created now and not from the
They shall wander each one to his beginning;
quarter. And before this day you have not heard
No one shall save you. them,
Lest you should say, ‘Of course I knew
“Hear this, O house of Jacob, them.’
48 Who are called by the name 8 Surely you did not hear,
of Israel,
And have come forth from the Surely you did not know;
Surely from long ago your ear was not
wellsprings of Judah; opened.
Who swear by the name of the LORD, For I knew that you would deal very
And make mention of the God of Israel, treacherously,
But not in truth or in righteousness;
2 For they call themselves after And were called a transgressor from
the womb.
the holy city,
And lean on the God of Israel; 9 “For My name’s sake I will defer
The LORD of hosts is His name: My anger,
And for My praise I will restrain it
3 “I have declared the former things from from you,
the beginning; So that I do not cut you off.
They went forth from My mouth, 10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as
and I caused them to hear it. silver;
Suddenly I did them, and they came I have tested you in the furnace of
to pass. affliction.
4 Because I knew that you were obstinate, 11 For My own sake, for My own sake,
And your neck was an iron sinew, I will do it;

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