Isaiah 48:8-10

New International Version - UK

⁸ You have neither heard nor understood;
    from of old your ears have not been open.
Well do I know how treacherous you are;
    you were called a rebel from birth.
⁹ For my own name’s sake I delay my wrath;
    for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you,
    so as not to destroy you completely.
¹⁰ See, I have refined you, though not as silver;
    I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.