For my Name’s sake will I defer my wrath, and for my praise, will I refrain it from thee, [a]that I cut thee not off.

10 Behold, I have fined thee, but [b]not as silver: I have [c]chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

11 For mine own sake, for mine own sake will I do it; for how should my Name [d]be polluted? [e]surely I will not give my glory unto another.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 48:9 As it was my free mercy that I did choose thee: so it is my free mercy that must save thee.
  2. Isaiah 48:10 For I had respect to thy weakness and infirmity: for in silver there is some pureness, but in us there is nothing but dross.
  3. Isaiah 48:10 I took thee out of the furnace where thou shouldest have been consumed.
  4. Isaiah 48:11 God joineth the salvation of his with his own honor: so that they cannot perish, but his glory should be diminished, as Deut. 32:27.
  5. Isaiah 48:11 Read Isa. 42:8.

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