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Because of who I am,
    I will keep my anger until later.
I will not destroy you now,
    so that people will praise my name.
10 Listen! I have made you pure.
    But I have not done it in the way that people make silver pure.
Instead, I have sent pain and trouble to you.
    That is how I make you pure.
11 I do these things to show who I am.
    That is why I do it!
I will not let people insult my good name.
    I will not let anyone else share my glory.

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For my own name’s sake(A) I delay my wrath;(B)
    for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you,
    so as not to destroy you completely.(C)
10 See, I have refined(D) you, though not as silver;
    I have tested(E) you in the furnace(F) of affliction.
11 For my own sake,(G) for my own sake, I do this.
    How can I let myself be defamed?(H)
    I will not yield my glory to another.(I)

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