4. Because I knew that you were obstinate,And your neck was an iron sinew,And your brow bronze,
5. Even from the beginning I have declared it to you;Before it came to pass I proclaimed it to you,Lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them,And my carved image and my molded imageHave commanded them.’
6. “You have heard;See all this.And will you not declare it?I have made you hear new things from this time,Even hidden things, and you did not know them.
7. They are created now and not from the beginning;And before this day you have not heard them,Lest you should say, ‘Of course I knew them.’
8. Surely you did not hear,Surely you did not know;Surely from long ago 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 I will defer My anger,And for My praise I will restrain it from you,So that I do not 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 do it;For how should My name be profaned?And I will not give My glory to another.
12. “Listen to Me, O Jacob,And Israel, My called:I am He, I am the First,I am also the Last.
13. Indeed My hand has laid the foundation of the earth,And My right hand has stretched out the heavens;When I call to them,They stand up together.
14. “All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear!Who among them has declared these things?The Lord loves him;He shall do His pleasure on Babylon,And His arm shall be against the Chaldeans.