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# Isaiah 48

Isaiah 48 is chapter 48 of 66 in the Book of Isaiah. Here are all 22 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> He reproaches the Jews for their obstinacy: he will deliver them out of their captivity, for his own name's sake.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Isaiah 48 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Listen to these things, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and who went forth from the waters of Judah. You swear by the name of the Lord and you call to mind the God of Israel, but not in truth, and not in justice.
2. For they have been called from the holy city, and they have been founded upon the God of Israel. The Lord of hosts is his name.
3. From that time, I announced the former things. They went forth from my mouth, and I have caused them to be heard. I wrought these things suddenly, and they were fulfilled.
4. For I knew that you are stubborn, and that your neck is like an iron sinew, and that your forehead is like brass.
5. From that time, I foretold to you. Before these things happened, I revealed them to you, lest you say: “My idols have accomplished these things, and my graven and molten images have commanded them.”
6. See all the things that you have heard. But were you the ones who announced them? From that time, I caused you to hear about new things, and you do not know how these were preserved.
7. They are created now, and not in that time. And even before today, you did not hear of them; otherwise, you might say, “Behold, I knew them.”
8. You have neither heard, nor known, nor were your ears open in that time. For I knew that you would transgress greatly, and so I called you a transgressor from the womb.
9. For the sake of my name, I will take the face of my fury far away. And for the sake of my praise, I will bridle you, lest you perish.
10. Behold, I have refined you, but not like silver. I have chosen you for the furnace of poverty.
11. For my sake, for my own sake, I will do it, so that I may not be blasphemed. For I will not give my glory to another.
12. Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel whom I call. I am the same, I am the first, and I am the last.
13. Also, my hand has founded the earth, and my right hand has measured the heavens. I will call them, and they will stand together.
14. Gather together, all of you, and listen. Who among them has announced these things? The Lord has loved him; he will do his will with Babylon, and his arm is upon the Chaldeans.
15. I am, I have spoken, and I have called him. I have led him forward, and his way has been straight.
16. Draw near to me, and listen to this. From the beginning, I have not spoken in secret. From the time before it happened, I was there. And now, the Lord God has sent me, and his Spirit.
17. Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord, your God, who teaches you beneficial things, who guides you in the way that you walk.
18. If only you had paid attention to my commandments! Your peace would have been like a river, and your justice would have been like the waves of the sea,
19. and your offspring would have been like the sand, and the stock from your loins would have been like its stones. His name would not have passed away, nor would it have been worn away before my face.
20. Depart from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Announce it with a voice of exultation. Cause it to be heard, and carry it even to the ends of the earth. Say: “The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob.”
21. They did not thirst in the desert, when he led them out. He produced water from the rock for them. For he split the rock, and the waters flowed out.
22. “There is no peace for the impious,” says the Lord.

## Isaiah 48 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Audite hæc, domus Jacob, qui vocamini nomine Israël, et de aquis Juda existis; qui juratis in nomine Domini, et Dei Israël recordamini non in veritate neque in justitia.
2. De civitate enim sancta vocati sunt, et super Deum Israël constabiliti sunt: Dominus exercituum nomen ejus.
3. Priora ex tunc annuntiavi, et ex ore meo exierunt, et audita feci ea: repente operatus sum, et venerunt.
4. Scivi enim quia durus es tu, et nervus ferreus cervix tua, et frons tua ærea.
5. Prædixi tibi ex tunc; antequam venirent, indicavi tibi, ne forte diceres: Idola mea fecerunt hæc, et sculptilia mea et conflatilia mandaverunt ista.
6. Quæ audisti, vide omnia; vos autem, num annuntiastis? Audita feci tibi nova ex tunc, et conservata sunt quæ nescis.
7. Nunc creata sunt et non ex tunc; et ante diem, et non audisti ea, ne forte dicas: Ecce ego cognovi ea.
8. Neque audisti, neque cognovisti, neque ex tunc aperta est auris tua: scio enim quia prævaricans prævaricaberis, et transgressorem ex utero vocavi te.
9. Propter nomen meum longe faciam furorem meum, et laude mea infrenabo te, ne intereas.
10. Ecce excoxi te, sed non quasi argentum; elegi te in camino paupertatis.
11. Propter me, propter me faciam, ut non blasphemer; et gloriam meam alteri non dabo.
12. Audi me, Jacob, et Israël, quem ego voco: ego ipse, ego primus, et ego novissimus.
13. Manus quoque mea fundavit terram, et dextera mea mensa est cælos; ego vocabo eos, et stabunt simul.
14. Congregamini, omnes vos, et audite: quis de eis annuntiavit hæc? Dominus dilexit eum, faciet voluntatem suam in Babylone, et brachium suum in Chaldæis.
15. Ego, ego locutus sum, et vocavi eum; adduxi eum, et directa est via ejus.
16. Accedite ad me et audite hoc: non a principio in abscondito locutus sum: ex tempore antequam fieret, ibi eram: et nunc Dominus Deus misit me, et spiritus ejus.
17. Hæc dicit Dominus, redemptor tuus, Sanctus Israël: Ego Dominus Deus tuus, docens te utilia, gubernans te in via qua ambulas.
18. Utinam attendisses mandata mea: facta fuisset sicut flumen pax tua, et justitia tua sicut gurgites maris:
19. et fuisset quasi arena semen tuum, et stirps uteri tui ut lapilli ejus; non interisset et non fuisset attritum nomen ejus a facie mea.
20. Egredimini de Babylone, fugite a Chaldæis, in voce exsultationis annuntiate: auditum facite hoc, et efferte illud usque ad extrema terræ. Dicite: Redemit Dominus servum suum Jacob.
21. Non sitierunt in deserto, cum educeret eos: aquam de petra produxit eis, et scidit petram, et fluxerunt aquæ.
22. Non est pax impiis, dicit Dominus.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Fri, Dec 11, 2026: Friday of the Second Week of Advent — First Reading, Isaiah 48:17-19
- Fri, Dec 10, 2027 (computed): Friday of the Second Week of Advent — First Reading, Isaiah 48:17-19
- Fri, Dec 15, 2028 (computed): Friday of the Second Week of Advent — First Reading, Isaiah 48:17-19

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).