In Context

7 They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day you didn't hear them; lest you should say, 'Behold, I knew them.'

8 Yes, you didn't hear; yes, you didn't know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you did deal very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb.

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

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

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

12 |Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

Isaiah 48:10 in Other Translations