5. Therefore I declared them to you long ago, Before they took place I proclaimed them to you, So that you would not say, 'My idol has done them, And my graven image and my molten image have commanded them.'
6. "You have heard; look at all this. And you, will you not declare it? I proclaim to you new things from this time, Even hidden things which you have not known.
7. "They are created now and not long ago; And before today you have not heard them, So that you will not say, 'Behold, I knew them.'
8. "You have not heard, you have not known. Even from long ago your ear has not been open, Because I knew that you would deal very treacherously; And you have been called a rebel from birth.
9. "For the sake of My name I delay My wrath, And for My praise I restrain it for you, In order not to cut you off.
10. "Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
11. "For My own sake, for My own sake, I will act; For how can My name be profaned? And My glory I will not give to another.