Isaiah 48:16
Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, has sent me.
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14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them has declared these ? The Yahuah has loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm the Chaldeans.
15 I, I, have spoken; yes, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, has sent me.
17 Thus says the Yahuah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I the Yahuah your Elohim which teacheth you to profit, which leadeth you by the way you shouldest go.
18 O that you hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea: