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         <div class="label">48</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Stubborn Israel</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.48.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to this, you descendants of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.48.1"><span class="content">you who are called by the name of Israel</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.48.1"><span class="content">and come from the line of Judah,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.48.1"><span class="content">you who take oaths in the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.48.1"><span class="content">and invoke the God of Israel&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.48.1"><span class="content">but not in truth or righteousness&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.48.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.48.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">you who call yourselves citizens of the holy city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.48.2"><span class="content">and claim to rely on the God of Israel&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.48.2"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty is his name:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.48.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.48.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I foretold the former things long ago,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.48.3"><span class="content">my mouth announced them and I made them known;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.48.3"><span class="content">then suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.48.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.48.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For I knew how stubborn you were;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.48.4"><span class="content">your neck muscles were iron,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.48.4"><span class="content">your forehead was bronze.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.48.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.48.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Therefore I told you these things long ago;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.48.5"><span class="content">before they happened I announced them to you</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.48.5"><span class="content">so that you could not say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.48.5"><span class="content">&#8216;My images brought them about;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.48.5"><span class="content">my wooden image and metal god ordained them.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.48.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.48.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You have heard these things; look at them all.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.48.6"><span class="content">Will you not admit them?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.48.6"><span class="content">&#8220;From now on I will tell you of new things,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.48.6"><span class="content">of hidden things unknown to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.48.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.48.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They are created now, and not long ago;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.48.7"><span class="content">you have not heard of them before today.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.48.7"><span class="content">So you cannot say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.48.7"><span class="content">&#8216;Yes, I knew of them.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.48.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.48.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You have neither heard nor understood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.48.8"><span class="content">from of old your ears have not been open.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.48.8"><span class="content">Well do I know how treacherous you are;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.48.8"><span class="content">you were called a rebel from birth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.48.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.48.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For my own name&#8217;s sake I delay my wrath;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.48.9"><span class="content">for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.48.9"><span class="content">so as not to destroy you completely.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.48.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.48.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">See, I have refined you, though not as silver;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.48.10"><span class="content">I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.48.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.48.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For my own sake, for my own sake, I do this.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.48.11"><span class="content">How can I let myself be defamed?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.48.11"><span class="content">I will not yield my glory to another.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel Freed</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.48.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.48.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to me, Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.48.12"><span class="content">Israel, whom I have called:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.48.12"><span class="content">I am he;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.48.12"><span class="content">I am the first and I am the last.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.48.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.48.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">My own hand laid the foundations of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.48.13"><span class="content">and my right hand spread out the heavens;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.48.13"><span class="content">when I summon them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.48.13"><span class="content">they all stand up together.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.48.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.48.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come together, all of you, and listen:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.48.14"><span class="content">Which of the idols has foretold these things?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.48.14"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s chosen ally</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.48.14"><span class="content">will carry out his purpose against Babylon;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.48.14"><span class="content">his arm will be against the Babylonians.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">48:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 20</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.48.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.48.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I, even I, have spoken;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.48.15"><span class="content">yes, I have called him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.48.15"><span class="content">I will bring him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.48.15"><span class="content">and he will succeed in his mission.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.48.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.48.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come near me and listen to this:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.48.16"><span class="content">&#8220;From the first announcement I have not spoken in secret;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.48.16"><span class="content">at the time it happens, I am there.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.48.16"><span class="content">And now the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has sent me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.48.16"><span class="content">endowed with his Spirit.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.48.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.48.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.48.17"><span class="content">your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.48.17"><span class="content">&#8220;I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.48.17"><span class="content">who teaches you what is best for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.48.17"><span class="content">who directs you in the way you should go.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.48.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.48.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">If only you had paid attention to my commands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.48.18"><span class="content">your peace would have been like a river,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.48.18"><span class="content">your well-being like the waves of the sea.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.48.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.48.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Your descendants would have been like the sand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.48.19"><span class="content">your children like its numberless grains;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.48.19"><span class="content">their name would never be blotted out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.48.19"><span class="content">nor destroyed from before me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.48.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.48.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Leave Babylon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.48.20"><span class="content">flee from the Babylonians!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.48.20"><span class="content">Announce this with shouts of joy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.48.20"><span class="content">and proclaim it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.48.20"><span class="content">Send it out to the ends of the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.48.20"><span class="content">say, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has redeemed his servant Jacob.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.48.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.48.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.48.21"><span class="content">he made water flow for them from the rock;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.48.21"><span class="content">he split the rock</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.48.21"><span class="content">and water gushed out.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.48.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.48.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;There is no peace,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;for the wicked.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="COL.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Further Instructions</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="COL.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="COL.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="COL.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="COL.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="COL.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="COL.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Final Greetings</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="COL.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="COL.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Tychicus will tell you all the news about me. He is a dear brother, a faithful minister and fellow servant</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">slave</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 12</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="COL.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I am sending him to you for the express purpose that you may know about our</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:8 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">that he may know about your</span></span></span><span class="content"> circumstances and that he may encourage your hearts. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="COL.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He is coming with Onesimus, our faithful and dear brother, who is one of you. They will tell you everything that is happening here.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="COL.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="COL.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My fellow prisoner Aristarchus sends you his greetings, as does Mark, the cousin of Barnabas. (You have received instructions about him; if he comes to you, welcome him.) </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="COL.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Jesus, who is called Justus, also sends greetings. These are the only Jews</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:11 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">only ones of the circumcision group</span></span></span><span class="content"> among my co-workers for the kingdom of God, and they have proved a comfort to me. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="COL.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, that you may stand firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="COL.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I vouch for him that he is working hard for you and for those at Laodicea and Hierapolis. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="COL.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Our dear friend Luke, the doctor, and Demas send greetings. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="COL.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Give my greetings to the brothers and sisters at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="COL.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="COL.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">After this letter has been read to you, see that it is also read in the church of the Laodiceans and that you in turn read the letter from Laodicea.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="COL.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="COL.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Tell Archippus: &#8220;See to it that you complete the ministry you have received in the Lord.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="COL.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="COL.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I, Paul, write this greeting in my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you.</span></span></div>
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