7They have only now been effected, and not in the past: and before this day they had not come to your ears; for fear that you might say, I had knowledge of them.
8Truly you had no word of them, no knowledge of them; no news of them in the past had come to your ears; because I saw how false was your behaviour, and that your heart was turned against me from your earliest days.
9Because of my name I will put away my wrath, and for my praise I will keep myself from cutting you off.
10See, I have been testing you for myself like silver; I have put you through the fire of trouble.
11For myself, even because of my name, I will do it; for I will not let my name be shamed; and my glory I will not give to another.
12Give ear to me, Jacob, and Israel, my loved one; I am he, I am the first and I am the last.
13Yes, by my hand was the earth placed on its base, and by my right hand the heavens were stretched out; at my word they take up their places.
