8. You have neither heard nor understood; from of old your ears have not been open. Well do I know how treacherous you are; you were called a rebel from birth.
9. For my own name’s sake I delay my wrath; for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you, so as not to destroy you completely.
10. See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
11. For my own sake, for my own sake, I do this. How can I let myself be defamed? I will not yield my glory to another.
12. “Listen to me, Jacob, Israel, whom I have called: I am he; I am the first and I am the last.
13. My own hand laid the foundations of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they all stand up together.