8. You have neither heard, nor known, nor were your ears open in that time. For I knew that you would transgress greatly, and so I called you a transgressor from the womb.
9. For the sake of my name, I will take the face of my fury far away. And for the sake of my praise, I will bridle you, lest you perish.
10. Behold, I have refined you, but not like silver. I have chosen you for the furnace of poverty.
11. For my sake, for my own sake, I will do it, so that I may not be blasphemed. For I will not give my glory to another.
12. Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel whom I call. I am the same, I am the first, and I am the last.
13. Also, my hand has founded the earth, and my right hand has measured the heavens. I will call them, and they will stand together.
14. Gather together, all of you, and listen. Who among them has announced these things? The Lord has loved him; he will do his will with Babylon, and his arm is upon the Chaldeans.
15. I am, I have spoken, and I have called him. I have led him forward, and his way has been straight.
16. Draw near to me, and listen to this. From the beginning, I have not spoken in secret. From the time before it happened, 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 beneficial things, who guides you in the way that you walk.