Isaiah 48:10-12

New Century Version

¹⁰ I have made you pure, but not by fire, as silver is made pure.
    I have purified you by giving you troubles.
¹¹ I do this for myself, for my own sake.
    I will not let people speak evil against me,
    and I will not let some god take my glory.

¹² “People of Jacob, listen to me.
    People of Israel, I have called you to be my people.
I am God;
    I am the beginning and the end.