Isaiah 48

Treated in 17 passages across the library.

  • 48:10 See, I have put you through the refiner's fire, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. 5
  • 48:22 There is no peace, says the LORD, for the wicked. 3
  • 48:11 For my own sake, for my own sake I act, for why should my name be dishonored? I will not give my glory to another. 2
  • 48:16 Come close to me and listen: never, from the start, have I spoken in hiding; from the moment it began, I was present. And now the Lord GOD has sent me, and his Spirit. 2
  • 48:1 Hear this, house of Jacob, you who bear the name Israel and sprang from the waters of Judah, you who swear by the name of the LORD and call on the God of Israel, yet without truth and without righteousness. 1
  • 48:3 What came first I foretold long before; it issued from my mouth, and I let it be heard. Then all at once I acted, and it took place. 1
  • 48:8 You have not heard and have not known; long ago your ear stayed shut. For I knew that you would surely prove faithless, and you were named "Rebel from the womb." 1
  • 48:17 The LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says this: I am the LORD your God, who teaches you what is for your good and guides you along the road you are to walk. 1
  • 48:18 If only you had heeded my commands! Then your peace would have run like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. 1

Open Word Bible

  1. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    XII. Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice cites Isa. 48:1

    …Psal. 63:11, Isa. 19:18, chap. 45:23, 24, compared with Rom. 14:11, and Phil. 2:10, 11, Isa. 48:1, 2, and 65:15, 16, Jer. 4:2, and 5:7, and 12:16, Hos. 4:16, and 10:4. Therefore, in order…

  2. Freedom of the Will · Jonathan Edwards

    Section XI. The Evidence of Gods Certain Foreknowledge of the Volitions of Moral Agents cites Isa. xlviii. 3

    …the prediction confirmed with an oath, (Jer. xliv. 26, 27.) And God tells the people, (Isa. xlviii. 3, 4 – 8.) that he had predicted those things which should be consequent on their treachery…

  3. Evening by Evening · Charles H. Spurgeon

    December cites Isaiah 48:8

    …heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened.” (Isaiah 48:8) It is painful to remember that, in a certain degree, this accusation may be laid at the…

  4. Talks to the Farmer · Charles H. Spurgeon

    Threshing cites Isaiah 48:10

    …have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction” (Isaiah 48:10). Do not judge by what you see or feel, but by faith. Just as threshing shows the value…

  5. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour · Dwight L. Moody

    September cites Isa. xlviii. 10

    …unto Him.—J. Hudson Taylor. September 19 I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. Isa. xlviii. 10. Does not the word come like a soft shower, assuaging the fury of the flame? Yea, is it…

  6. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 4 — Penitence, as Explained in the Sophistical Jargon of the Schoolmen, Widely Different from the Purity Required by the Gospel cites Isa. 48:10

    …refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction,” (Isa. 48:10). Although he tells them that they are chastisements with a view to purification, he…

  7. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    March cites Isaiah 48:10

    …seeking whom we may bless! March 3 “I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.” (Isaiah 48:10) Comfort thyself, tried believer, with this thought: God saith, “I have chosen thee in…

  8. The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith · Charles H. Spurgeon

    The Month of August cites Isa. 48:10

    …hath pity upon thee! Aug. 27 CHOICE MEN "I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction" Isa. 48:10 This has long been the motto fixed before our eye upon the wall of our bedroom, and in…

  9. The Key Teachings of Jonathan Edwards · Ochorus Originals

    The End for Which God Created the World cites ISAIAH 48:11

    …sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it …and I will not give my glory unto another. ISAIAH 48:11 Election is to the praise of the glory of his grace (Ephesians 1:6). Creation is by him…

  10. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Man's Chief End cites Isa 48:11

    …it is infinite; it is that which God is most tender of, and which he will not part with. Isa 48:11: ‘My glory I will not give to another.’ God will give temporal blessings to his children…

  11. Communion with God · John Owen

    Digression I: some excellencies of Christ proposed to consideration cites Isa. xlviii. 16

    …the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me,” Isa. xlviii. 16. He himself is “yesterday, today, and for ever,” Heb. xiii. 8; and so is his love, being…

  12. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 1, Chapter 13 — The Unity of the Divine Essence in Three Persons Taught, in Scripture, from the Foundation of the World cites Isa. 48:16

    …away the force of what Isaiah says, “And now the Lord God, and his Spirit, has sent me,” (Isa. 48:16), thus ascribing a share in the sovereign power of sending the prophets to the Holy…

  13. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Christ's Prophetic Office cites Isa 48:17

    …He teaches to profit. ‘I am the Lord thy God, who teacheth thee to profit.’ Isa 48:17. How does Christ teach? (1.) Externally, by his Word. ‘Thy word is a lamp to my feet.’…

  14. Memoirs of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw · Zilpha Elaw

    Maine and Nantucket cites Isaiah xlviii. 18

    …were desirous of hearing me, I went into the desk opened the meeting, and preached from Isaiah xlviii. 18, “Oh, that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river…

  15. A Call to the Unconverted · Richard Baxter

    Preface cites Isa. xlviii. 22

    …soul be required of thee.” And that fearful sentence would be written upon my conscience, Isa. xlviii. 22. and lvii. 21. “There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.”—O poor sinners! it is a…

  16. A Call to the Unconverted · Richard Baxter

    Sermon II cites Isaiah xlviii. 22

    …us; we have told them that thou hast protested that “there is no peace to the wicked,” Isaiah xlviii. 22. and lvii. 21. but the worst of them all will scarcely believe that they are wicked; we…

  17. A Call to the Unconverted · Richard Baxter

    Sermon III cites Isaiah xlviii. 22

    …in that way, they shall be condemned, and that they shall not be saved unless they turn, Isaiah xlviii. 22. and lvii. 21. “There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.” Isaiah lix. 8. “The…