2. For they call themselves after the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel;the Lord of hosts is his name.
3. “The former things I declared of old;they went out from my mouth, and I announced them;then suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.
4. Because I know that you are obstinate,and your neck is an iron sinewand your forehead brass,
5. I declared them to you from of old,before they came to pass I announced them to you,lest you should say, ‘My idol did them,my carved image and my metal image commanded them.’
6. “You have heard; now see all this;and will you not declare it?From this time forth I announce to you new things,hidden things that you have not known.
7. They are created now, not long ago;before today you have never heard of them,lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
8. You have never heard, you have never known,from of old your ear has not been opened.For I knew that you would surely deal treacherously,and that from before birth you were called a rebel.
9. “For my name’s sake I defer my anger,for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you,that I may not cut you off.
10. Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.
11. For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it,for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.
12. “Listen to me, O Jacob,and Israel, whom I called!I am he; I am the first,and I am the last.
13. My hand laid the foundation of the earth,and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I call to them,they stand forth together.
14. “Assemble, all of you, and listen! Who among them has declared these things?The Lord loves him; he shall perform his purpose on Babylon,and his arm shall be against the Chaldeans.
15. I, even I, have spoken and called him;I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.
16. Draw near to me, hear this:from the beginning I have not spoken in secret,from the time it came to be I have been there.”And now the Lord God has sent me, and his Spirit.