4. Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;
5. therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I showed it to you; lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them, and my engraved image, and my molten image, has commanded them.’
6. You have heard it; see all this. And you, won’t you declare it? “I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.
7. They are created now, and not from of old; and before today you didn’t hear them; lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
8. Yes, you didn’t hear; yes, you didn’t know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you dealt 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 hold it back for you, so that I don’t cut you off.
10. Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.