Isaiah 48:6-11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 You have heard; now see all this;
and will you not declare it?
From this time forward I tell you new things,
hidden things that you have not known.(A)
7 They are created now, not long ago;
before today you have never heard of them,
so that you could not say, “I already knew them.”
8 You have never heard; you have never known;
from of old your ear has not been opened.
For I knew that you would act very treacherously
and that from birth you were called a rebel.(B)
9 For my name’s sake I defer my anger;
for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you,
so that I may not cut you off.(C)
10 See, I have refined you but not like[a] silver;
I have tested you in the furnace of adversity.(D)
11 For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it,
for why should my name[b] be profaned?
My glory I will not give to another.(E)
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