Isaiah 48:9

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Summary

Isaiah 48:9

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.

My name's

Defer

General references

Ezekiel 36:21

Bible References

My name's

“For My own sake, for My own sake, I will act;
For how can My name be profaned?
And My glory I will not give to another.

‘For I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’”

“I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake,
And I will not remember your sins.

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and they will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. And what will You do for Your great name?”

For the Lord will not abandon His people on account of His great name, because the Lord

has been pleased to make you a people for Himself.

For Your name’s sake, O Lord,

Pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name;

And deliver us and

forgive our sins for Your name’s sake.

Nevertheless He saved them for the sake of His name,
That He might make His power known.

For the sake of Your name, O Lord, revive me.

In Your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble.

“Although our iniquities testify against us,
O Lord, act for Your name’s sake!
Truly our apostasies have been many,
We have sinned against You.

But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made Myself known to them by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

So now, our God, listen to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplications, and for Your sake, O Lord, let Your face shine on Your desolate sanctuary.

Defer

“However, You bore with them for many years,
And admonished them by Your Spirit through Your prophets,
Yet they would not give ear.
Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

But He, being compassionate,

forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them;

And often He

restrained His anger

And did not arouse all His wrath.

The Lord is compassionate and gracious,

Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.

A man’s discretion makes him slow to anger,
And it is his glory to overlook a transgression.

General references

But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went.