Isaiah 48
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Lutheran reading notes
In Isaiah chapter 48, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of judgment, repentance, messianic hope, and restoration. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, {but} not in truth, nor in righteousness.
Isaiah 48:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts {is} his name.
Isaiah 48:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did {them} suddenly, and they came to pass.
Isaiah 48:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Because I knew that thou {art} obstinate, and thy neck {is} an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; {obstinate: Heb. hard}
Isaiah 48:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I have even from the beginning declared {it} to thee; before it came to pass I shewed {it} thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
Isaiah 48:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare {it}? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.
Isaiah 48:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
Isaiah 48:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time {that} thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
Isaiah 48:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Isaiah 48:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. {with...: or, for silver}
Isaiah 48:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For mine own sake, {even} for mine own sake, will I do {it}: for how should {my name} be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.
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Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I {am} he; I {am} the first, I also {am} the last.
Isaiah 48:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: {when} I call unto them, they stand up together. {my...: or, the palm of my right hand hath spread out}
Isaiah 48:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these {things}? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm {shall be on} the Chaldeans.
Isaiah 48:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I, {even} I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
Isaiah 48:15 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there {am} I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
Isaiah 48:16 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I {am} the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way {that} thou shouldest go.
Isaiah 48:17 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
Isaiah 48:18 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
Isaiah 48:19 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Go ye forth of 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, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
Isaiah 48:20 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Isaiah 48:21 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{There is} no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.
Isaiah 48:22 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.