8. You have not heard, you have not known,indeed, from long ago your ear has not been open.For I knew that you would deal very treacherously,and that from birth you have been called a rebel.
9. For My name’s sake I will defer My anger,and for My praise I will restrain it for youso that you are not cut off.
10. See, I have refined you, but not with silver;I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
11. For My own sake, even for My own sake, I will do it;for how can My name be polluted?And I will not give My glory to another.
12. Listen to Me, O Jacoband Israel, whom I called:I am He;I am the First, and I am the Last.
13. My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth,and My right hand has spanned the heavens;when I call to them,they stand up together.
14. Assemble, all of you, and listen.Who among them has declared these things?The Lord has loved him;he will do His pleasure on Babylon,and His arm shall be against the Chaldeans.
15. I, even I, have spoken,and I have called him;I have brought him,and his way will prosper.
16. Come near to Me, hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning;from the time that it was, there I am. And now the Lord God has sent meand His Spirit.
17. Thus says the Lord,your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:I am the Lord your God,who teaches you to profit,who leads you in the way you should go.
18. Oh, that you had listened to My commandments!Then your peace would have been as a riverand your righteousness as the waves of the sea.
19. Your descendants also would have been as the sandand your offspring like grains of sand;their name would not have been cut offnor destroyed from before Me.
20. Go forth from Babylon!Flee from the Chaldeans!With a voice of singing declare,proclaim this,utter it even to the ends of the earth;say, “The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob.”
21. They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts;He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them;He also split the rock,and the waters gushed out.
22. “There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.”