Isaiah 48:1-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³ The former things I declared long ago,
    they went out from my mouth and I made them known;
    then suddenly I did them and they came to pass.
⁴ Because I know that you are obstinate,
    and your neck is an iron sinew
    and your forehead brass,
⁵ I declared them to you from long ago,
    before they came to pass I announced them to you,
so that you would not say, ‘My idol did them,
    my carved image and my cast image commanded them.’

⁶ You have heard; now see all this;
    and will you not declare it?
From this time forward I make you hear new things,
    hidden things that you have not known.
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 deal very treacherously,
    and that from birth you were called a rebel.

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.
¹⁰ See, I have refined you, but not like^[b] silver;
    I have tested you in the furnace of adversity.
¹¹ For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it,
    for why should my name^[c] be profaned?
    My glory I will not give to another.