Isaiah 48:9

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

For the sake of mine own Name, will I defer mine anger, And for my praise, will I restrain myself towards thee, - So as not to cut thee off.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
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.

Hebrew Names Version
For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for you, that I not cut you off.

King James Version
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.

English Standard Version
"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.

New American Standard Bible
"For the sake of My name I delay My wrath, And for My praise I restrain it for you, In order not to cut you off.

New Century Version
But for my own sake I will be patient. People will praise me for not becoming angry and destroying you.

Amplified Bible
"For the sake of My Name I refrain from My wrath, And for My praise I restrain Myself from you, So that I do not cut you off.

World English Bible
For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for you, that I not cut you off.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For my Names sake will I defer my wrath, and for my praise will I refraine it from thee, that I cut thee not off.

Legacy Standard Bible
For the sake of My name I delay My anger,And for My praise I restrain it for you,In order not to cut you off.

Berean Standard Bible
For the sake of My name I will delay My wrath; for the sake of My praise I will restrain it, so that you will not be cut off.

Contemporary English Version
I, the Lord , am true to myself; I will be praised for not punishing and destroying you.

Complete Jewish Bible
Yet for the sake of my own reputation I am deferring my anger; for the sake of my praise I am patient with you, so as not to cut you off.

Darby Translation
For my name's sake I will defer mine anger, and [for] my praise will I refrain as to thee, that I cut thee not off.

Easy-to-Read Version
"But I will be patient. I will do this for myself. People will praise me for not becoming angry and destroying you. You will praise me for waiting.

George Lamsa Translation
For my names sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I keep you, and I will not destroy you.

Good News Translation
"In order that people will praise my name, I am holding my anger in check; I am keeping it back and will not destroy you.

Lexham English Bible
For the sake of my name I refrain from my anger, and for my praise I restrain it for you so as not to cut you off.

Literal Translation
For My name's sake I will put off My anger; and for My praise I will hold back for you, so as not to cut you off.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Neuertheles for my names sake, I haue withdrawen my wrath, and for myne honours sake I haue ouersene the, so that I haue not rooted the out.

American Standard Version
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.

Bible in Basic English
Because of my name I will put away my wrath, and for my praise I will keep myself from cutting you off.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.

King James Version (1611)
For my names sake will I deferre mine anger, and for my praise will I refraine for thee, that I cut thee not off.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Neuerthelesse, for my names sake I wyll withdrawe my wrath, and for my honours sake I will patiently forbeare thee, that I do not roote thee out.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For mine own sake will I shew thee my wrath, and will bring before thee my glorious acts, that I may not utterly destroy thee.

English Revised Version
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.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For my name Y schal make fer my strong veniaunce, and with my preysyng Y schal refreyne thee, lest thou perische.

Update Bible Version
For my name's sake I will defer my anger, and for my praise I will refrain for you, that I don't cut you off.

Webster's Bible Translation
For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

New English Translation
For the sake of my reputation I hold back my anger; for the sake of my prestige I restrain myself from destroying you.

New King James Version
"For My name's sake I will defer My anger, And for My praise I will restrain it from you, So that I do not cut you off.

New Living Translation
Yet for my own sake and for the honor of my name, I will hold back my anger and not wipe you out.

New Life Bible
Because of My name I hold back My anger. For My praise I keep Myself from cutting you off.

New Revised Standard
For my name's sake I defer my anger, for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, so that I may not cut you off.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For my name’s sake I will remove my wrath far off: and for my praise I will bridle thee, lest thou shouldst perish.

Revised Standard Version
"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.

Young's Literal Translation
For My name's sake I defer Mine anger, And My praise I restrain for thee, So as not to cut thee off.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For the sake of My name I delay My wrath, And for My praise I restrain it for you, In order not to cut you off.

Contextual Overview

⁹ For the sake of mine own Name, will I defer mine anger, And for my praise, will I restrain myself towards thee, - So as not to cut thee off. ¹⁰ Lo! I have refined thee, but not as silver, - I have tested thee, in a smelting-pot of affliction. ¹¹ For mine own sake - for mine own sake, will I effectually work For how should it be profaned? And, my glory - to another, will I not give. ¹² Hearken unto me O Jacob, And Israel, my called one, - I, am, the Same I, the first, yea, I, the last: ¹³ Surely, mine own hand, founded the earth, And, my right hand, stretched out the heavens, - While I was calling unto them, they stood forth, at once ¹⁴ Assemble yourselves - all of you and hear, Who among them, hath told these things? he whom Yahweh loveth, will execute - His pleasure, on Babylon, And his stroke on the Chaldeans. ¹⁵ I - I, have spoken, Yea I have called him, - I have brought him in, and he shall make prosperous his way.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

my name's: Isaiah 48:11, Isaiah 37:35, Isaiah 43:25, Joshua 7:9, 1 Samuel 12:22, Psalms 25:11, Psalms 79:9, Psalms 106:8, Psalms 143:11, Jeremiah 14:7, Ezekiel 20:9, Ezekiel 20:14, Ezekiel 20:22, Ezekiel 20:44, Daniel 9:17-19

defer: Nehemiah 9:30, Nehemiah 9:31, Psalms 78:38, Psalms 103:8-10, Proverbs 19:11

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 9:28 - Because 2 Kings 19:34 - for mine 1 Chronicles 17:21 - make thee Isaiah 48:19 - his name Ezekiel 36:21 - General Hosea 11:9 - not execute

Cross-References

Genesis 27:4
and make for me dainty meats, such as I love and bring in to me, that I may eat, - To the end my soul may bless thee, ere yet I lie!

Genesis 30:2
Then kindled the anger of Jacob with Rachel, - and he said, Am I, in the place of God, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?

Genesis 33:5
Then lifted he up his eyes, and beheld the women and the children, and said What are these to thee? And he said - The children wherewith God hath favoured thy servant,

Genesis 48:3
Then said Jacob unto Joseph, GOD Almighty, appeared unto me in Luz in the land of Canaan, - and blessed me;

Genesis 48:4
and said unto me - Behold me! about to make thee fruitful, so will I multiply thee, and give thee to become a multitude of peoples, - so will I give this land to thy seed after thee, as an age-abiding possession.

Genesis 48:5
Now, therefore thy two sons who were born to thee in the land of Egypt, before I came in unto thee in Egypt, are Ephraim and Manasseh, like Reuben and Simeon, shall be mine.

Genesis 48:11
And Israel said unto Joseph, To see thine own face, had I not thought, - and lo! God hath caused me to see even thy seed!

Genesis 48:14
Then Israel put forth his right hand and laid it upon the head of Ephraim, though, he, was the younger, and his left hand upon the head of Manasseh, - crossing his hands, although, Manasseh, was the first-born.

Genesis 48:20
And he blessed them on that day, saying - In thee, let Israel bless himself saying, God set thee as Ephraim, and as Manasseh! So he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

Genesis 48:21
And Israel said unto Joseph: Lo! I, am about to die, - but it shall come to pass that, God will be with you, and will take you back into the land of your fathers.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For my name's sake will I defer mine anger,.... From age to age, for those sins which had been committed, and continued in ever since they were a people. The above account of them shows that it was not for any merits of theirs, or any works of righteousness done by them, that he showed favour to them, as afterwards expressed; but for his own name's sake, and because of his glory; because these people were called by his name, and said to be his people, lest therefore his name should be reproached among the Heathen, or he should suffer any diminution of his glory, therefore he did not at once stir up all his wrath, as their sins deserved, but prolonged it from time to time:

and for my praise will I refrain from thee, that I cut thee not off: that is, refrain mine anger from thee; or "seal" or "stop my nostrils" c, that the smoke of his wrath and anger might not go out from thence to destroy them. The Targum is,

"I will confirm (or establish) thee, that I may not consume thee;''

and this he would do, because of his praise, of the praise of his mercy, grace, and goodness; and that he might have a people to praise him, which he would not, should they be cut off.

c אח ם לך "obstruam sive". "obturabo nares tibi", Malvenda, Gataker; so Jarchi.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For my name’s sake - (See the notes at Isaiah 43:25; compare Isaiah 66:5). It is possible that the design of this verse may be, to answer an objection. ‘If the character of the nation is such, it might be said, ‘why should God desire to restore them again to their own land? If their sins have been so great as to make these heavy judgments proper, why not suffer them to remain under the infliction of the deserved judgment? Why should God interpose? why raise up Cyrus? why overthrow Babylon? why conduct them across a pathless wilderness, and provide for them in a sandy desert?’ To this the answer is, that it was not on their account. It was not because they were deserving of his favor, nor was it primarily and mainly in order that they might be happy. It was on his own account - in order to show his covenant faithfulness; his fidelity to the promises made to their fathers, his mercy, his compassion, his readiness to pardon, and his unchanging love. And this is the reason why he ‘defers his anger,’ in relation to any of the children of people. His own glory, and not their happiness, is the main object in view. And this is right. The glory, the honor, and the happiness of God, are of more importance than the welfare of any of his creatures; because, first, they are in themselves of more importance, just in proportion as God is more elevated than any of his creatures; and, secondly, the welfare of any or all of his creatures depends on the maintaining of the honor of God, and of his government, and on the manifestation of his perfections to the universe (see the treatise of President Edwards on The end for which God created the world, in Works, vol. iii. New York Ed. 1830).

Will I defer mine anger - That is, I will spare you, and restore you again to your own land (see the note at Isaiah 48:11).

And for my praise will I refrain for thee - Will I refrain my anger in reference to you as a nation. The word used here (חטם châṭam) denotes properly to muzzle, and is commonly employed with reference to an animal in order to tame or subdue it. Here it means that God would restrain himself; He would not put forth His anger in order to destroy them. Learn hence:

1. That God acts with reference to his own glory, in order to manifest his own perfections, and to secure his praise.

2. That the reason why the wicked are not cut off sooner in their transgressions is, that He may show his forbearance, and secure praise by long-suffering.

3. That the reason why the righteous are kept amidst their frequent failures in duty, their unfaithfulness, and their many imperfections, is, that God may get glory by showing his covenant fidelity.

4. That it is one evidence of piety - and one that is indispensable - that there should be a willingness thai God should secure his own glory in his own way, and that there should be a constant desire that his praise should be promoted, whatever may befall his creatures.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 48:9. And for my praise - "And for the sake of my praise"] I read ולמען תהלתי ulemaan tehillathi. The word למען lemaan, though not absolutely necessary here, for it may be understood as supplied from the preceding member, yet seems to have been removed from hence to Isaiah 48:11; where it is redundant, and where it is not repeated in the Septuagint, Syriac, and a MS. I have therefore omitted it in the latter place, and added it here.