World English Bible
"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."
— Isaiah 48:9, World English Bible
“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 mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not 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.”
You have heard it; see all this; and you, will you not declare it? "I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.
They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day 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 did deal very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb.
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.
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it; for how should [my name] be profaned? and my glory I will not give to another.
"Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.