2. For they call themselves after the holy city,And lean on the God of Israel;The Lord of hosts is His name:
3. “I have declared the former things from the beginning;They went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to hear it.Suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.
4. Because I knew that you were obstinate,And your neck was an iron sinew,And your brow bronze,
5. Even from the beginning I have declared it to you;Before it came to pass I proclaimed it to you,Lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them,And my carved image and my molded imageHave commanded them.’
6. “You have heard;See all this.And will you not declare it?I have made you hear new things from this time,Even hidden things, and you did not know them.
7. They are created now and not from the beginning;And before this day you have not heard them,Lest you should say, ‘Of course I knew them.’
8. Surely you did not hear,Surely you did not know;Surely from long ago your ear was not opened.For I knew that you would deal very treacherously,And were called a transgressor from the womb.
9. “For My name’s sake I will defer My anger,And for My praise I will restrain it from you,So that I do not cut you off.
10. Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver;I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.