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    "language": "en",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 48
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    "n": 48,
    "bookSlug": "isaiah",
    "bookCode": "ISA",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "ISA-48:1",
        "verseRef": "Isa.48.1",
        "text": "Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Jehovah, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "ISA-48:2",
        "verseRef": "Isa.48.2",
        "text": "(for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; Jehovah of hosts is his name):"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "ISA-48:3",
        "verseRef": "Isa.48.3",
        "text": "I have declared the former things from of old; yea, they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them: suddenly I did them, and they came to pass."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "ISA-48:4",
        "verseRef": "Isa.48.4",
        "text": "Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "ISA-48:5",
        "verseRef": "Isa.48.5",
        "text": "therefore I have declared it to thee from of old; before it came to pass I showed it thee; lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "ISA-48:6",
        "verseRef": "Isa.48.6",
        "text": "Thou hast heard it; behold all this; and ye, will ye not declare it? I have showed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, which thou hast not known."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "ISA-48:7",
        "verseRef": "Isa.48.7",
        "text": "They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "ISA-48:8",
        "verseRef": "Isa.48.8",
        "text": "Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from of old thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou didst deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "ISA-48:9",
        "verseRef": "Isa.48.9",
        "text": "For my name`s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "ISA-48:10",
        "verseRef": "Isa.48.10",
        "text": "Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "ISA-48:11",
        "verseRef": "Isa.48.11",
        "text": "For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do it; for how should [my name] be profaned? and my glory will I not give to another."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "ISA-48:12",
        "verseRef": "Isa.48.12",
        "text": "Hearken unto me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "ISA-48:13",
        "verseRef": "Isa.48.13",
        "text": "Yea, my hand hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spread out the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "ISA-48:14",
        "verseRef": "Isa.48.14",
        "text": "Assemble yourselves, all ye, and hear; who among them hath declared these things? He whom Jehovah loveth shall perform his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the Chaldeans."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "ISA-48:15",
        "verseRef": "Isa.48.15",
        "text": "I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him; I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "ISA-48:16",
        "verseRef": "Isa.48.16",
        "text": "Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; from the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord Jehovah hath sent me, and his Spirit."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "ISA-48:17",
        "verseRef": "Isa.48.17",
        "text": "Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Jehovah thy God, who teacheth thee to profit, who leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "ISA-48:18",
        "verseRef": "Isa.48.18",
        "text": "Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "ISA-48:19",
        "verseRef": "Isa.48.19",
        "text": "thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains thereof: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "ISA-48:20",
        "verseRef": "Isa.48.20",
        "text": "Go ye forth from Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans; with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth: say ye, Jehovah hath redeemed his servant Jacob."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "ISA-48:21",
        "verseRef": "Isa.48.21",
        "text": "And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "ISA-48:22",
        "verseRef": "Isa.48.22",
        "text": "There is no peace, saith Jehovah, to the wicked."
      }
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