Isaiah 48:11
For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it. For how should [my name] be profaned? And I not will give my glory to another.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
10Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver. I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
12Hearken to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I also am the last.
Cross References
Numbers 14:15Now if thou shall kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
Deuteronomy 32:27were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge amiss, lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, and LORD has not done all this.
Psalms 25:7Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. According to thy loving kindness remember thou me, for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.
Isaiah 37:35For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
Isaiah 43:25I, even I, am he who blots out thy transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.
Isaiah 52:5Now therefore, what do I do here, says LORD, seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them howl, says LORD, and because of you (LXX/NT) my name is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles (LXX/NT).
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 48:10-16
Encouragement to God's People. ( b. c. 708.) 9 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. 10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. 11 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another. 12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. 13 Mine hand also hath… Read the whole commentary →