Isaiah 48:6-13 King James 2000 (KJ2000)

6. You have heard, now see all this; and will you not declare it? I have showed 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 heard them not; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them.

8. Yea, you heard not; yea, you knew not; yea, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you would deal very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

9. For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I restrain it for you, that I cut you not off.

10. Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

11. For my own sake, even for my own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be profaned? and I will not give my glory unto another.

12. Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

13. My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.

Isaiah 48