King James Version
Isaiah 48:9 in the King James Version says “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.” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 48 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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.”
Isaiah 48:9 · KJV
They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
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.
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. with: or, for silver
For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, heed, i.e., purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that
“For my name's”
H8034an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character
“mine anger”
H639properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
properly, a failure of, i.e., (used only as a negative particle, usually with a prepositional prefix) not, except, without, unless, besides, because n
“for thee that I cut thee not off”
H3772to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e., make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutt
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