16 Come near to Me and listen to this: From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time it happened, I was there.” And now the Lord GOD has sent me, accompanied by His Spirit. 17 Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who directs you in the way you should go. 18 If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.
Isaiah 48:16–18
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Isaiah 45:18–20
18 For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other. 19 I have not spoken in secret, from a plac…
Psalms 81:7–9
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Isaiah 44:1–2
1 But now listen, O Jacob My servant, Israel, whom I have chosen. 2 This is the word of the LORD, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
Isaiah 45:10–12
10 Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought forth?’” 11 Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: “How dare you question Me about My sons, or instruct Me in the work of My hands? 12 It is I wh…
Isaiah 48:11–13
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Jeremiah 7:22–24
22 For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices, 23 but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have co…
Psalms 50:6–8
6 And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah 7 “Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God. 8 I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
2 Esdras 9:29–31
29 “O Lord, you showed yourself among us, to our fathers in the wilderness, when they went out of Egypt, and when they came into the wilderness, where no man treads and that bears no fruit. (WEB) 30 You said, ‘Hear me, O Israel. Heed my words, O seed of Jacob. (WEB) 31 For behold,… (WEB)
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