12Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
13Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.
14Assemble yourselves, all you, and hear; who among them has declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves shall perform his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the Chaldeans.
15I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him; I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
16Come you near to me, hear you this; from the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, and his Spirit.
17Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
18Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:
