Holy Bible - New Revised Standard Version(NRSV)

48:1	Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and who came forth from the loins of Judah; who swear by the name of the LORD, and invoke the God of Israel, but not in truth or right.
48:2	For they call themselves after the holy city, and lean on the God of Israel; the LORD of hosts is his name.
48:3	The former things I declared long ago, they went out from my mouth and I made them known; then suddenly I did them and they came to pass.
48:4	Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,
48:5	I declared them to you from long ago, before they came to pass I announced them to you, so that you would not say, "My idol did them, my carved image and my cast image commanded them."
48:6	You have heard; now see all this; and will you not declare it? From this time forward I make you hear new things, hidden things that you have not known.
48:7	They are created now, not long ago; before today you have never heard of them, so that you could not say, "I already knew them."
48:8	You have never heard, you have never known, from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would deal very treacherously, and that from birth you were called a rebel.
48:9	For my name's sake I defer my anger, for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, so that I may not cut you off.
48:10	See, I have refined you, but not like silver; I have tested you in the furnace of adversity.
48:11	For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for why should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.
48:12	Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called: I am He; I am the first, and I am the last.
48:13	My hand laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they stand at attention.
48:14	Assemble, all of you, and hear! Who among them has declared these things? The LORD loves him; he shall perform his purpose on Babylon, and his arm shall be against the Chaldeans.
48:15	I, even I, have spoken and called him, I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.
48:16	Draw near to me, hear this! From the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it came to be I have been there. And now the Lord GOD has sent me and his spirit.
48:17	Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your own good, who leads you in the way you should go.
48:18	O that you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your prosperity would have been like a river, and your success like the waves of the sea;
48:19	your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me.
48:20	Go out from Babylon, flee from Chaldea, declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it, send it forth to the end of the earth; say, "The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!"
48:21	They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he split open the rock and the water gushed out.
48:22	"There is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked."