12 Listen to Me, O Jacoband Israel, whom I called:I am He;I am the First, and I am the Last.
13 My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth,and My right hand has spanned the heavens;when I call to them,they stand up together.
14 Assemble, all of you, and listen.Who among them has declared these things?The Lord has loved him;he will do His pleasure on Babylon,and His arm shall be against the Chaldeans.
15 I, even I, have spoken,and I have called him;I have brought him,and his way will prosper.
16 Come near to Me, hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning;from the time that it was, there I am. And now the Lord God has sent meand His Spirit.
17 Thus says the Lord,your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:I am the Lord your God,who teaches you to profit,who leads you in the way you should go.
18 Oh, that you had listened to My commandments!Then your peace would have been as a riverand your righteousness as the waves of the sea.