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For the sake of my name I refrain from[a] my anger,
    and for my praise I restrain it for you
        so as not to cut you off.
10 Look! I have refined you, but[b] not like[c] silver;
    I have chosen you in the furnace of misery.
11 For my own sake, for my own sake I do it;
    for why should it[d] be defiled?
        And I will not give my glory to another.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 48:9 Literally “make long”
  2. Isaiah 48:10 Or “and”
  3. Isaiah 48:10 Or “with”
  4. Isaiah 48:11 That is, my name

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)
10 See, I have refined(D) you, though not as silver;
    I have tested(E) you in the furnace(F) of affliction.
11 For my own sake,(G) for my own sake, I do this.
    How can I let myself be defamed?(H)
    I will not yield my glory to another.(I)

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