8Yes, you didn`t hear; yes, you didn`t know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you did deal very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb.
9For my name`s sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for you, that I not cut you off.
10Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
11For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it; for how should [my name] be profaned? and my glory I will not give to another.
12Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
13Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.
14Assemble yourselves, all you, and hear; who among them has declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves shall perform his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the Chaldeans.
