9 For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I restrain it for you, that I cut you not off.
10 Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
11 For my own sake, even for my own sake, will I 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 My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
14 All you, assemble yourselves, and hear; who among them has declared these things? The LORD has loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
15 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.