Isaiah 48:8-10

New International Reader's Version

⁸ You have not heard or understood what I said.
    Your ears have been plugged up for a long time.
I knew very well that you would turn against me.
    From the day you were born, you have refused to obey me.
⁹ For the honor of my own name I wait to show my anger.
    I hold it back from you so people will continue to praise me.
    I do not want to destroy you completely.
¹⁰ I have tested you in the furnace of suffering.
    I have tried to make you pure.
    But I did not use as much heat as it takes to make silver pure.