For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I restrain it for you, that I cut you not off. Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. For my own sake, even for my own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be profaned? and I will not give my glory unto another. Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. (Isaiah 48:9-12)