1Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.

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Jeremiah 4:2, Jeremiah 4:2, Psalms 68:26, Psalms 68:26, Isaiah 65:16

2For they say that they are of the holy town, and put their faith in the God of Israel: the Lord of armies is his name.

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Micah 3:11, Micah 3:11, Romans 2:17, Isaiah 52:1, Isaiah 10:20

3I gave word in the past of the things which came about; they came from my mouth, and I made them clear: suddenly I did them, and they came about.

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Isaiah 42:9, Isaiah 42:9, Isaiah 41:22, Isaiah 41:22, Joshua 21:45

4Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;

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Acts 7:51, Acts 7:51, Exodus 32:9, Exodus 32:9, Zechariah 7:11

5For this reason I made it clear to you in the past, before it came I gave you word of it: for fear that you might say, My god did these things, and my pictured and metal images made them come about.

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Isaiah 48:3, Isaiah 48:3, Jeremiah 44:15, Jeremiah 44:18, Luke 1:70

6All this has come to your ears and you have seen it; will you not give witness to it? I am now making clear new things, even secret things, of which you had no knowledge.

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Revelation 4:1, Revelation 4:1, Isaiah 42:9, Romans 16:25, Romans 16:26

7They have only now been effected, and not in the past: and before this day they had not come to your ears; for fear that you might say, I had knowledge of them.

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8Truly you had no word of them, no knowledge of them; no news of them in the past had come to your ears; because I saw how false was your behaviour, and that your heart was turned against me from your earliest days.

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Psalms 58:3, Psalms 58:3, Matthew 13:13, Matthew 13:15, Hosea 5:7

9Because of my name I will put away my wrath, and for my praise I will keep myself from cutting you off.

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Psalms 106:8, Psalms 78:38, Psalms 143:11, Psalms 79:9, Isaiah 37:35

10See, I have been testing you for myself like silver; I have put you through the fire of trouble.

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1 Peter 4:12, 1 Peter 4:12, Proverbs 17:3, Proverbs 17:3, Job 23:10

11For myself, even because of my name, I will do it; for I will not let my name be shamed; and my glory I will not give to another.

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Isaiah 42:8, Isaiah 42:8, Ezekiel 20:9, Ezekiel 20:9, Isaiah 37:35

12Give ear to me, Jacob, and Israel, my loved one; I am he, I am the first and I am the last.

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Isaiah 41:4, Isaiah 41:4, Revelation 1:8, Revelation 22:13, Isaiah 44:6

13Yes, by my hand was the earth placed on its base, and by my right hand the heavens were stretched out; at my word they take up their places.

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Isaiah 40:26, Isaiah 40:26, Exodus 20:11, Psalms 102:25, Hebrews 1:10

14Come together, all of you, and give ear; who among you has given news of these things? the Lord's loved one will do his pleasure with Babylon, and with the seed of the Chaldaeans.

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Isaiah 43:9, Isaiah 43:9, Jeremiah 50:21, Jeremiah 50:29, Isaiah 13:17

15I, even I, have given the word; I have sent for him: I have made him come, and have given effect to his undertakings.

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Joshua 1:8, Joshua 1:8, Isaiah 45:1, Isaiah 45:2, Isaiah 45:1

16Come near to me, and give ear to this; from the start I did not keep it secret; from the time of its coming into existence I was there: and now the Lord God has sent me, and given me his spirit.

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John 18:20, John 18:20, John 20:21, John 20:22, John 20:21

17The Lord who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, I am the Lord your God, who is teaching you for your profit, guiding you by the way in which you are to go.

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Psalms 32:8, Psalms 32:8, Psalms 25:12, Psalms 25:12, Job 22:21

18If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:

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Deuteronomy 5:29, Deuteronomy 5:29, Isaiah 66:12, Isaiah 66:12, Psalms 81:13

19Your seed would have been like the sand, and your offspring like the dust: your name would not be cut off or come to an end before me.

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Isaiah 10:22, Isaiah 10:22, Genesis 22:17, Genesis 22:17, Romans 9:27

20Go out of Babylon, go in flight from the Chaldaeans; with the sound of song make it clear, give the news, let the word go out even to the end of the earth: say, The Lord has taken up the cause of his servant Jacob.

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Jeremiah 51:45, Isaiah 52:9, Jeremiah 51:45, Isaiah 52:9, Jeremiah 51:6

21They had no need of water when he was guiding them through the waste lands: he made water come out of the rock for them: the rock was parted and the waters came flowing out.

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Exodus 17:6, Isaiah 43:19, Isaiah 43:20, Exodus 17:6, Isaiah 43:19

22There is no peace, says the Lord, for the evil-doers.

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Isaiah 57:21, Isaiah 57:21, Job 15:20, Job 15:24, Job 15:20