9. “In order that people will praise my name,I am holding my anger in check;I am keeping it back and will not destroy you.
10. I have tested you in the fire of suffering,as silver is refined in a furnace.But I have found that you are worthless.
11. What I do is done for my own sake —I will not let my name be dishonouredor let anyone else share the glorythat should be mine and mine alone.”
12. The Lord says,“Listen to me, Israel, the people I have called!I am God, the first, the last, the only God!