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.
11 For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it;For how should My name be profaned?And 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 Indeed My hand has laid the foundation of the earth,And My right hand has stretched out the heavens;When I call to them,They stand up together.
14 “All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear!Who among them has declared these things?The Lord loves him;He shall do His pleasure on Babylon,And His arm shall be against the Chaldeans.
15 I, even I, have spoken;Yes, I have called him,I have brought him, and his way will prosper.