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"You have heard; look at all this. And you, will you not declare it? I proclaim to you new things from this time, Hidden things which you have not known.

Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.

"They are created now and not long ago; And before today you have not heard them, So that you will not say, 'Behold, I knew them.'

They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.

"You have not heard, you have not known. Even from long ago your ear has not been open, Because I knew that you would deal very treacherously; And you have been called a rebel from birth.

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.

"For the sake of My name I delay My wrath, And for My praise I restrain it for you, In order not to cut you off.

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.

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

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

"For My own sake, for My own sake, I will act; For how can My name be profaned? And I will not give My glory to another.

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.