Isaiah 48:14-15

The Lord's Call to Israel

¹⁴ "Assemble, all of you, and listen!
_u Who among them has declared these things?
The Lord loves him;
_v he shall perform his purpose on Babylon,
and his arm shall be against _w the Chaldeans.
¹⁵ _x I, even I, have spoken and called him;
I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.

1. Cross References
   Isaiah 41:26
   Who declared it from the beginning, that we might know, and beforehand, that we might say, "He is right"? There was none who declared it, none who proclaimed, none who heard your words.
   
2. Cross References
   Isaiah 46:10 - 11
   Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose.
   
3. Cross References
   Isaiah 23:13
   Behold the land of the Chaldeans! This is the people that was not; Assyria destined it for wild beasts. They erected their siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin.
   Isaiah 47:1
   Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
   
4. Cross References
   Isaiah 45:1 - 3
   Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed: