Isaiah 48:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁹ “For my name's sake I defer my anger, for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ For My name's sake I defer My anger, and for the sake of My praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

⁹ For the sake of my reputation I control my anger; for your sake I restrain my powerful radiance so as to not destroy you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ For the sake of my name, I will take the face of my fury far away. And for the sake of my praise, I will bridle you, lest you perish.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ For my name's sake I will remove my wrath far off: and for my praise I will bridle thee, lest thou shouldst perish.

Isaiah 48:9 Cross References

Psalm 106:8

Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his mighty power.

Psalm 143:11

For thy name's sake, O Lord, preserve my life! In thy righteousness bring me out of trouble!

Psalm 25:11

For thy name's sake, O Lord, pardon my guilt, for it is great.

Psalm 78:38

Yet he, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often, and did not stir up all his wrath.

Psalm 79:9

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name; deliver us, and forgive our sins, for thy name's sake!

Proverbs 19:11

Good sense makes a man slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

Isaiah 30:18

Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you; therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.

Isaiah 37:35

For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”

Isaiah 43:25

“I, I am He who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.

Isaiah 48:11

For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.

Isaiah 65:8

Thus says the Lord: “As the wine is found in the cluster, and they say, ‘Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,’ so I will do for my servants' sake, and not destroy them all.

Jeremiah 14:7

“Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for thy name's sake; for our backslidings are many, we have sinned against thee.

Ezekiel 20:14

But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.

Ezekiel 20:22

But I withheld my hand, and acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.

Ezekiel 20:44

And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I deal with you for my name's sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel, says the Lord God.”

Ezekiel 20:9

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

Ezekiel 36:21

But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel caused to be profaned among the nations to which they came.

Joshua 7:9

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth; and what wilt thou do for thy great name?”

1 Samuel 12:22

For the Lord will not cast away his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.