4 Because I knew that you were obstinate,And your neck was an iron sinew,And your brow bronze,
5 Even from the beginning I have declared it to you;Before it came to pass I proclaimed it to you,Lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them,And my carved image and my molded imageHave commanded them.’
6 “You have heard;See all this.And will you not declare it?I have made you hear new things from this time,Even hidden things, and you did not know them.
7 They are created now and not from the beginning;And before this day you have not heard them,Lest you should say, ‘Of course I knew them.’
8 Surely you did not hear,Surely you did not know;Surely from long ago your ear was not opened.For I knew that you would deal 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 will restrain it from you,So that I do not cut you off.
10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver;I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.