| 48 | Revised Standard Version | Passage |
| "Hearken to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called! I am He, I am the first, and I am the last. | Cyrus - the LORD's chosen conqueror. Is.48.12-16 | |
| "Assemble, all of you, and hear! Who among them has declared these things? The LORD loves him; he shall perform his purpose on Babylon, and his arm shall be against the Chalde'ans. | ||
| I, even I, have spoken and called him, I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way. | ||
| Draw near to me, hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it came to be I have been there." And now the Lord GOD has sent me and his Spirit. | ||