Isaiah 48 rebukes Israel for its stubbornness: "I knew how stubborn you were with sinews of your neck like iron and your forehead of bronze". Hence God tested Israel in the Babylonian furnace of affliction and "have refined you though not as silver". God says that he predicted things far ahead of time so that it couldn't be claimed that idols had brought them to pass! God goes on to say that "for my own name's sake I delay my wrath... for my own sake I do this... I will not yield my glory to another.. I am the first and the last... I am the Lord God who teaches what is best for you... Leave Babylon, flee from the Babylonians! Announce this with shouts of joy!"
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