Isaiah 48:9-11

The Voice

⁹     On account of My reputation, I hold back my anger;
        for My own weighty grandeur, I am patient with you,
    So that I don’t make an absolute break with you.
¹⁰     I have refined you, but not in the way silver is refined.
        Instead, I try you in the furnace of suffering.

¹¹     But it is all on account of Me, not of you, that I act,
        that I retain honor, that My glory is Mine alone, and not sullied.