🕊️WEB · Isaiah 48:9
What does Isaiah 48:9 mean?
"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."
— Isaiah 48:9 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
You have heard it; see all this. And you, won’t you 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 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.
For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it; for how would my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another.
“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I am also the last.
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