9 For my name’s sake I will defer my anger, and for my praise I will wait patiently for thee that I not cut thee off.
10 Behold, I have refined thee, and not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
11 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, I will do it, for how should my name be profaned? and I will not give my glory unto another.
12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
13 Certainly my hand founded the earth, and my right hand measured the heavens with the palm; as I named them, they appeared together.
14 All ye, assemble yourselves and hear; who is there among them that declares these things? The Lord has loved him, the one who will execute his will on Babylon and his arm upon the Chaldeans.
15 I, even I, have spoken; I have called him: I have brought him, and therefore his way shall be prospered.