“For(A) My name’s sake (B)I will [a]defer My anger,
And for My praise I will restrain it from you,
So that I do not cut you off.
10 Behold, (C)I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tested you in the (D)furnace of affliction.
11 For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it;
For (E)how should My name be profaned?
And (F)I will not give My glory to another.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 48:9 delay

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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