10. Behold I have refined thee, but not as silver, I have chosen thee in the furnace of poverty.
11. For my own sake, for my own sake will I do it, that I may not be blasphemed: and I will not give my glory to another.
12. Hearken to me, O Jacob, and thou Israel whom I call: I am he, I am the first, and I am the last.
13. My hand also hath founded the earth, and my right hand hath measured the heavens: I shall call them, and they shall stand together.
14. Assemble yourselves together, all you, and hear: who among them hath declared these things? the Lord hath loved him, he will do his pleasure in Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
15. I, even I have spoken and called him: I have brought him, and his way is made prosperous.
16. Come ye near unto me, and hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning: from the time before it was done, I was there, and now the Lord God hath sent me, and his spirit.
17. Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord thy God that teach thee profitable things, that govern thee in the way that thou walkest.
18. O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace had been as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea,
19. And thy seed had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof: his name should not have perished, nor have been destroyed from before my face.