Isaiah 48:11
For My sake, for My own sake, I do [it], || For how is it defiled? And I do not give My glory to another.
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10Behold, I have refined you, and not with silver, || I have chosen you in a furnace of affliction.
12Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, My called one, || I [am] He, || I [am] first, and I [am] last;
Cross References
Numbers 14:15And You have put to death this people as one man, and the nations who have heard Your fame have spoken, saying,
Deuteronomy 32:27If I do not fear the anger of an enemy, || Lest their adversaries know—Lest they say, Our hand is high, || And YHWH has not worked all this.
Psalms 25:7Sins of my youth, and my transgressions, || Do not remember. According to Your kindness be mindful of me, || For Your goodness’ sake, O YHWH.
Isaiah 37:35And I have covered over this city, || To save it, for My own sake, || And for the sake of My servant David.”
Isaiah 43:25I [am] He who is blotting out Your transgressions for My own sake, || And I do not remember your sins.
Isaiah 52:5And now, what [have] I here,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “That My people are taken for nothing? Its rulers cause howling,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “And My Name is continually despised all the day.
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 →