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12 ) Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called, I am he, I am the first, I also am the last.
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13 ) Mine hand also has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
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14 ) All you, assemble yourselves, and hear, which among them has declared these things? The LORD has loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
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15 ) I, even I, have spoken, yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
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16 ) Come all of you near unto me, hear all of you this, I have not spoken in secret from the beginning, from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, has sent me.
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17 ) Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, I am the LORD your God which teaches you to profit, which leads you by the way that you should go.