23:048:008 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
23:048:009 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise
will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
23:048:010 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have
chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
23:048:011 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.
23:048:012 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
23:048:013 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my
right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them,
they stand up together.
23:048:014 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath
declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his
pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
23:048:015 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
23:048:016 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in
secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am
I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
23:048:017 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I
am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which
leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.