Study Desk

You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not admit them? "From now on I will tell you of new things, of hidden things unknown to you.

They are created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today. So you cannot say, 'Yes, I knew of them.'

You have neither heard nor understood; from of old your ear has not been open. Well do I know how treacherous you are; you were called a rebel from birth.

For my own name's sake I delay my wrath; for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you, so as not to cut you off.

See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

For my own sake, for my own sake, I do this. How can I let myself be defamed? I will not yield my glory to another.