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.”
17. Thus said יהוה, your Redeemer, the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl, “I am יהוה your Elohim, teaching you what is best, leading you by the way you should go.
18. “If only you had listened to My commands! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
19. “And your seed would have been like the sand, and the offspring of your inward parts like the grains of sand. His name would not have been cut off nor destroyed from before Me.