Isaiah 48:10-12

New International Reader's Version

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.

¹² “Family of Jacob, listen to me.
    People of Israel, pay attention.
    I have chosen you.
I am the first and the last.
    I am the Lord.