12Hearken to me, O Jacob, and Israel, My called one, I [am] He, I [am] first, and I [am] last;
13Also, My hand hath founded earth, And My right hand stretched out the heavens, I am calling unto them, they stand together.
14Be gathered all of you, and hear, Who among them did declare these things? Jehovah hath loved him, He doth His pleasure on Babylon, And His arm [is on] the Chaldeans.
15I -- I have spoken, yea, I have called him, I have brought him in, And he hath made prosperous his way.
16Come ye near unto me, hear this, Not from the beginning in secret spake I, From the time of its being, there [am] I, And now the Lord Jehovah hath sent me, and His Spirit.
17Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, The Holy One of Israel, `I [am] Jehovah thy God, teaching thee to profit, Causing thee to tread in the way thou goest.
18O that thou hadst attended to My commands, Then as a river is thy peace, And thy righteousness as billows of the sea,
