Isaiah 48:9-12

9For 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 destroy you completely.

10See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

11For 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.

Israel Freed 12“Listen to me, Jacob, Israel, whom I have called: I am he; I am the first and I am the last.