Isaiah 48:9-11

New International Reader's Version

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.
¹¹ I tried to purify you for my own honor.
    I did it for the honor of my name.
How can I let myself be dishonored?
    I will not give up my glory to any other god.