8. Yes, you didn’t hear;yes, you didn’t know;yes, from of old your ear was not opened:for I knew that you dealt very treacherously,and were called a transgressor from the womb.
9. For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger,and for my praise I hold it back for you,so that I don’t cut you off.
10. Behold, I have refined you,but not as silver.I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
11. For my own sake,for my own sake, I will do it;for how would my name be profaned?I will not give my glory to another.
12. “Listen to me, O Jacob,and Israel my called:I am he;I am the first,I am also the last.
13. Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth,and my right hand has spread out the heavens.when I call to them, they stand up together.
14. “Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear;who among them has declared these things?He whom the Lord loves will do what he likes to Babylon,and his arm will be against the Kasdim.