11. For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, I will do it, for how should my name be profaned? and I will not give my glory unto another.
12. Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
13. Certainly my hand founded the earth, and my right hand measured the heavens with the palm; as I named them, they appeared together.
14. All ye, assemble yourselves and hear; who is there among them that declares these things? The Lord has loved him, the one who will execute his will on Babylon and his arm upon the Chaldeans.
15. I, even I, have spoken; I have called him: I have brought him, and therefore his way shall be prospered.
16. Come near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was done, I was there: and now the Lord God has sent me and his Spirit.
17. Thus has the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel said: I am the Lord thy God who teaches thee to profit, who causes thee to walk by the way in which thou dost walk.
18. O that thou would look unto my commandments! Then thy peace would be as a river and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: