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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.

12 So listen to me, descendants of Jacob!
    I called you to belong to me, you Israelite people.
I am the only One.
    I am the first, and I am also the last.

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10 See, I have refined(A) you, though not as silver;
    I have tested(B) you in the furnace(C) of affliction.
11 For my own sake,(D) for my own sake, I do this.
    How can I let myself be defamed?(E)
    I will not yield my glory to another.(F)

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12 “Listen(G) to me, Jacob,
    Israel, whom I have called:(H)
I am he;(I)
    I am the first and I am the last.(J)

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