Isaiah 48:10-12

New International Version - UK

¹⁰ See, I have refined you, though not as silver;
    I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
¹¹ For 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.

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