Isaiah 48:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹For 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 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 79:9
Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
Isaiah 37:35
For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
Psalms 78:38
But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
Psalms 143:11
Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.
Psalms 106:8
Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-15)

The deliverance of God’s people out of their captivity in Babylon was a thing upon many accounts so improbable that there was need of line upon line for the encouragement of the faith and hope of God’s people concerning it. Two things were discouraging to them—their own unworthiness that God should do it for them and the many difficulties in the thing itself; now, in these verses, both these disco…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. refrain--literally, “muzzle”; His wrath, after the return, was to be restrained a while, and then, because of their sins, let loose again (Psa 78:38). for thee--that is, mine anger towards thee.