4. Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass,
5. so I have long ago declared them to thee; before they came to pass I caused thee to hear them; lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, or my molten image hath commanded them.
6. Thou heardest, see all this; --and ye, will not ye declare it? I have caused thee to hear new things from this time, and things hidden, and that thou knewest not:
7. they are created now, and not long ago; and before this day thou hast not heard them, lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
8. Yea, thou heardest not, yea, thou knewest not, yea, from of old thine ear was not opened; for I knew that thou wouldest ever deal treacherously, and thou wast called a transgressor from the womb.
9. For my name's sake I will defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain as to thee, that I cut thee not off.
10. Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.