10. Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.
11. For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it,for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.
12. “Listen to me, O Jacob,and Israel, whom I called!I am he; I am the first,and I am the last.
13. My hand laid the foundation of the earth,and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I call to them,they stand forth together.
14. “Assemble, all of you, and listen! Who among them has declared these things?The Lord loves him; he shall perform his purpose on Babylon,and his arm shall be against the Chaldeans.