10 Behold, I have refined you, (A)but not as silver;
    (B)I have tried[a] you in the furnace of affliction.
11 (C)For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it,
    for how should my name[b] be profaned?
    (D)My glory I will not give to another.

The Lord's Call to Israel

12 “Listen to me, O Jacob,
    and Israel, whom I called!
I am he; (E)I am the first,
    and I am the last.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 48:10 Or I have chosen
  2. Isaiah 48:11 Hebrew lacks my name

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