American Standard Version
"For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. "
— Isaiah 48:9, American Standard Version
“For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.”
“For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for you, that I not cut you off.”
“For the sake of my reputation I hold back my anger; for the sake of my prestige I restrain myself from destroying you.”
“For my name's sake I will remove my wrath far off: and for my praise I will bridle thee, lest thou shouldst perish.”
“Because of my name I will put away my wrath, and for my praise I will keep myself from cutting you off.”
“For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.”
Thou hast heard it; behold all this; and ye, will ye not declare it? I have showed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, which thou hast not known.
They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from of old thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou didst deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do it; for how should my name be profaned? and my glory will I not give to another.
Hearken unto me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.