3. “I have declared the former events from the beginning, and they went forth from My mouth, and I made you hear them. Suddenly I acted, and they came to be.
4. “Because I knew that you were hard, and your neck was an iron sinew, and your forehead bronze,
5. therefore I declared it to you long ago. Before it came I made you hear, lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them, and my carved image and my moulded image commanded them.’
6. “You have heard, look at them all. And do you not declare it? From now on I shall make you hear new ones, even hidden ones, which you have not known.
7. “Now they shall be created and not long ago. And before this day you have not heard them, lest you should say, ‘Look, I knew them.’
8. “No, you have not heard; no, you have not known; no, from of old your ear has not been open. Because I knew that you are indeed treacherous, and are called ‘a transgressor from the womb.’
9. “For My Name’s sake I postponed My displeasure, and for My praise I held it back from you, so as not to cut you off.
10. “See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
11. “For My own sake, for My own sake, I do it. For how is it profaned? And My esteem I do not give to another.
12. “Listen to Me, O Ya‛aqoḇ, and Yisra’ĕl, My called: I am He, I am the First, I am also the Last.
13. “Also, My hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and My right hand has stretched out the heavens. I call to them, let them stand together.
14. “All of you, gather yourselves, and hear! Who among them has declared these? יהוה has loved him. Let him do His pleasure on Baḇel, and His arm be on the Chaldeans.
15. “I, I have spoken, I have also called him, I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
16. “Come near to Me, hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, I was there. And now the Master יהוה has sent Me, and His Spirit.”