5 therefore I have declared it to you from of old;before it came to pass I showed it to you;lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them, and my engraved image, and my molten image, has commanded them.’
6 You have heard it;see all this.And you, won’t you declare it?“I have shown you new things from this time,even hidden things, which you have not known.
7 They are created now, and not from of old;and before today you didn’t hear them;lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
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.