3. I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.
4. Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;
5. I have even from the beginning declared it to you; before it came to pass I showed it to you: lest you should say, my idol has done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, has commanded them.
6. You have heard, now see all this; and will you not declare it? I have showed you new things from this time, even hidden things, and you did not know them.
7. They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when you heard them not; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them.
8. Yea, you heard not; yea, you knew not; yea, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you would deal very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.
9. For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I restrain it for you, that I cut you not off.
10. Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
11. For my own sake, even for my own sake, will I 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. My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
14. All you, assemble yourselves, and hear; who among them has declared these things? The LORD has loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
15. I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
16. Come near unto me, hear this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I:
17. Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel;
18. O that you had hearkened to my commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea: