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14 Let all of them come together and listen:[a]
    Who is there among them that could declare[b] these things?

“The Lord loves me,[c]
    and he will accomplish[d] my purpose[e] against Babylon;
        his arm[f] will be against the Chaldeans.
15 I—Yes, I!—have spoken;
    indeed, I’ve called and[g] I’ve brought him,
        and he will make his path successful.[h]
16 Draw near to me, and[i] listen to this:
    ‘From the beginning I haven’t spoken in secret;
at[j] the time it happened, I was there.’
    And now the Lord God, and his Spirit, has sent me.[k]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 48:14 So 1QIsaa LXX; 4QIsad MT read Come together, all of you, and listen!
  2. Isaiah 48:14 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsad MT LXX read has declared
  3. Isaiah 48:14 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsad MT read him; LXX reads you
  4. Isaiah 48:14 So 1QIsaa (misspelling carry out); 4QIsad MT read He will carry out; LXX reads I have carried out
  5. Isaiah 48:14 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsad MT LXXms read his purpose; LXX reads your purpose
  6. Isaiah 48:14 I.e. the Messiah; so 1QIsaa; MT reads and his arm; LXX reads to do away with the offspring
  7. Isaiah 48:15 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsad MT read called him; 4QIsac LXX read brought him
  8. Isaiah 48:15 Or his path will be successful; so 1QIsaa (feminine) and 4QIsad MT (masculine); 4QIsac LXX read I will make his path successful
  9. Isaiah 48:16 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT lacks and
  10. Isaiah 48:16 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads from
  11. Isaiah 48:16 Or has sent me and his Spirit.