35 I will defend this city and rescue it
for my sake(A)
and for the sake of my servant David.”(B)

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35 “I will defend(A) this city and save it,
    for my sake(B) and for the sake of David(C) my servant!”

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I will delay my anger for the sake of my name,
and I will restrain myself for your benefit and for my praise,
so that you will not be destroyed.

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For my own name’s sake(A) I delay my wrath;(B)
    for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you,
    so as not to destroy you completely.(C)

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11 I will act for my own sake, indeed, my own,(A)
for how can I[a] be defiled?
I will not give my glory to another.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 48:11 DSS, Syr; MT reads it

11 For my own sake,(A) for my own sake, I do this.
    How can I let myself be defamed?(B)
    I will not yield my glory to another.(C)

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22 “Therefore, say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Lord God says: It is not for your sake that I will act,(A) house of Israel, but for my holy name,(B) which you profaned among the nations where you went.

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22 “Therefore say to the Israelites, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: It is not for your sake, people of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name,(A) which you have profaned(B) among the nations where you have gone.(C)

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