9. "For the sake of My name I delay My wrath, And for My praise I restrain it for you, In order not to cut you off.
10. "Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
11. "For My own sake, for My own sake, I will act; For how can My name be profaned? And My glory I will not give to another.
12. "Listen to Me, O Jacob, even Israel whom I called; I am He, I am the first, I am also the last.
13. "Surely My hand founded the earth, And My right hand spread out the heavens; When I call to them, they stand together.
14. "Assemble, all of you, and listen! Who among them has declared these things? The Lord loves him; he will carry out His good pleasure on Babylon, And His arm will be against the Chaldeans.
15. "I, even I, have spoken; indeed I have called him, I have brought him, and He will make his ways successful.
16. "Come near to Me, listen to this: From the first I have not spoken in secret, From the time it took place, I was there. And now the Lord God has sent Me, and His Spirit."
17. Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, "I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, Who leads you in the way you should go.
18. "If only you had paid attention to My commandments! Then your well-being would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.