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God's Sovereign 'I Am' and Call to Return

Isaiah 48:12-22

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Chapter 48
12 Hear me, Jacob and Israel, my called one; I am he, I the first, even I the last. 13 Even my hand founded the earth, and my right hand spanned the heavens. I call to them; they stand together. 14 Assemble, all of you, and listen: Who among them has declared these things? The LORD loves him; he will do his pleasure in Babel, and his arm the Chaldeans. 15 I—I have spoken; even I called him, I brought him, and his way prospered. 16 Come near to me and hear this: I did not speak in secret from the beginning. From the time it happened, I was there. And now the Lord GOD has sent me, and his Spirit. 17 This is what the LORD says, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who directs you in the way you should go." 18 If you had listened to my commandments, then your peace would be like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. 19 And your seed would be like the sand, and the offspring of your loins like its grains; it would not be cut off, and it would not be destroyed—his name from before me. 20 Go out from Babel, flee from the Chaldeans, with a voice of ringing cry declare, make heard this, bring it out to the end of the earth; say, "The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob." 21 And they did not thirst when he led them through deserts; he poured water for them from the rock, and he split the rock and water flowed. 22 There is no peace, says the LORD, to the wicked.