They are created now, and not from of old.
Before today, you didn’t hear them, lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’ Yes, you didn’t hear.
Yes, you didn’t know.
Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.
For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger, and for my praise, I hold it back for you so that I don’t cut you off.
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver.
I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.