23:048:004 Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an
           iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

23:048:005 I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it
           came to pass I shewed it thee:  lest thou shouldest say, Mine
           idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image,
           hath commanded them.

23:048:006 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.

23:048:007 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.

23:048:008 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.

23:048:009 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.

23:048:010 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have
           chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

23:048:011 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.

23:048:012 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am
           the first, I also am the last.

23:048:013 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my
           right hand hath spanned the heavens:  when I call unto them,
           they stand up together.

23:048:014 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath
           declared these things?  The lord hath loved him:  he will do his
           pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

23:048:015 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him:  I have brought
           him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

23:048:016 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in
           secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am
           I:  and now the Lord god, and his Spirit, hath sent me.

23:048:017 Thus saith the lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I
           am the lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which
           leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.

23:048:018 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy
           peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of
           the sea: 

23:048:019 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy
           bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been
           cut off nor destroyed from before me.