Isaiah 48:9
For my own sake will I show you my wrath, and will bring before you my glorious acts, that I may not utterly destroy you.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
10Behold, I have sold you, but not for silver; but I have rescued you from the furnace of affliction.
Cross References
Joshua 7:9And when the Chananite and all the inhabitants of the land hear it, they shall compass us round and destroy us from off the land: and what will you do for your great name?
Nehemiah 9:30Yet you did bear long with them many years, and did testify to them by your Spirit by the hand of your prophets: but they listened not; so you gave them into the hand of the nations of the land.
Psalms 103:8They go up to the mountains, and down to the plains, to the place which you have founded for them. 1
Psalms 143:11Deliver me, and rescue me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity; 1
Isaiah 30:18And the Lord will again wait, that he may pity you, and will therefore be exalted that he may have mercy upon you: because the Lord your God is a judge: blessed are they that + 30:18 Or, wait for stay themselves upon him.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 48:2-9
God's Expostulation with His People. ( b. c. 708.) 1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the Lord , and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness. 2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The Lord of hosts is his name. 3 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed… Read the whole commentary →