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.
18. If only you had paid attention to my commandments! Your peace would have been like a river, and your justice would have been like the waves of the sea,
19. and your offspring would have been like the sand, and the stock from your loins would have been like its stones. His name would not have passed away, nor would it have been worn away before my face.