5. I have already declared it many days ago; before it came to pass I showed it to thee: lest thou should say, My idol has done it, my graven image, and my molten image, has commanded these things.
6. Thou hast heard it, thou hast seen it all; and will ye not declare it? I have showed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.
7. They are created now, and not in days past; nor before this day hast thou heard them lest thou should say, Behold, I knew them.
8. Certainly thou hast never heard this; certainly thou hast never known this; certainly thine ear was never before opened: for I knew that being unfaithful thou would disobey; therefore, I called thee a rebel from the womb.
9. For my name’s sake I will defer my anger, and for my praise I will wait patiently for thee that I not cut thee off.
10. Behold, I have refined thee, and not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
11. For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, I will do it, for how should my name be profaned? and I will not give my glory unto another.