Isaiah 48:6-11

Common English Bible

⁶ You’ve heard and seen all this—
    won’t you admit it?
From now on I’ll tell you new things,
    guarded secrets that you don’t know.
⁷ They are created now, not long ago;
    before today you hadn’t heard of them,
    so you won’t say, “I already knew them.”
⁸ You haven’t heard, nor have you known;
    as in ages past your ears are closed,
    because I knew what a traitor you were;
    you were known as a rebel from birth.
⁹ For the sake of my reputation I control my anger;
    for your sake I restrain my powerful radiance
    so as to not destroy you.
¹⁰ See, I have refined you, but not like silver;
    I have tested you^[a] in the furnace of misery.
¹¹ For the sake of my reputation, for my own sake, I will act,
    for why will my name be made impure?
    I won’t give my glory to another.