Isaiah 48:6-11

Christian Standard Bible

⁶ You have heard it. Observe it all.
Will you not acknowledge it?
From now on I will announce new things to you,
hidden things that you have not known.^(A)
7 They have been created now, and not long ago;
you have not heard of them before today,
so you could not claim, ‘I already knew them!’
⁸ You have never heard; you have never known;
for a long time your ears have not been open.
For I knew that you were very treacherous,
and were known as a rebel from birth.^(B)
9 I will delay my anger for the sake of my name,
and I will restrain myself for your benefit and for my praise,
so that you will not be destroyed.
¹⁰ Look, I have refined you,^(C) but not as silver;
I have tested^[a] you in the furnace of affliction.
¹¹ I will act for my own sake, indeed, my own,^(D)
for how can I^[b] be defiled?
I will not give my glory to another.^(E)