7. Now they have been produced and not from that time, Yea, before the day, and thou hast not heard them, Lest thou say, `Lo, I have known them.'
8. Yea, thou hast not heard, Yea, thou hast not known, Yea, from that time not opened hath thine ear, For I have known thou dealest treacherously, And `Transgressor from the belly,' One is crying to thee.
9. For My name's sake I defer Mine anger, And My praise I restrain for thee, So as not to cut thee off.
10. Lo, I have refined thee, and not with silver, I have chosen thee in a furnace of affliction.
11. For My sake, for Mine own sake, I do [it], For how is it polluted? And Mine honour to another I give not.
12. Hearken to me, O Jacob, and Israel, My called one, I [am] He, I [am] first, and I [am] last;
13. Also, My hand hath founded earth, And My right hand stretched out the heavens, I am calling unto them, they stand together.
14. Be gathered all of you, and hear, Who among them did declare these things? Jehovah hath loved him, He doth His pleasure on Babylon, And His arm [is on] the Chaldeans.
15. I--I have spoken, yea, I have called him, I have brought him in, And he hath made prosperous his way.
16. Come ye near unto me, hear this, Not from the beginning in secret spake I, From the time of its being, there [am] I, And now the Lord Jehovah hath sent me, and His Spirit.
17. Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, The Holy One of Israel, `I [am] Jehovah thy God, teaching thee to profit, Causing thee to tread in the way thou goest.
18. O that thou hadst attended to My commands, Then as a river is thy peace, And thy righteousness as billows of the sea,