Isaiah 48:6-11

Modern English Version

I have shown you new things from this time,
    even hidden things, and you did not know them.
⁷ They are created now and not from the beginning;
    even before the day when you did not hear them,
lest you should say,
    “Yes, I knew them.”
⁸ You have not heard, you have not known,
    indeed, from long ago your ear has not been open.
For I knew that you would deal very treacherously,
    and that from birth you have been called a rebel.
⁹ For My name’s sake I will defer My anger,
    and for My praise I will restrain it for you
    so that you are not cut off.
¹⁰ See, I have refined you, but not with silver;
    I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
¹¹ For My own sake, even for My own sake, I will do it;
    for how can My name be polluted?
    And I will not give My glory to another.