4Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;
5therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I showed it you; lest you should say, My idol has done them, and my engraved image, and my molten image, has commanded them.
6You have heard it; see all this; and you, will you not declare it? I have showed you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.
7They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day you didn`t hear them; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them.
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.
