Isaiah 48:11 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 48:11

For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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.

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Commentary

5 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

And what it brings forth, I will not give my glory to another, this signifies that it should not be thought that idols have oppressed the people of God. Certainly, when he says, 'I will not give to another,' he indicates that he has already given to another, for he is said to have given to another in order to distinguish the first.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it,.... Defer his anger, not cut off his people and destroy them, but redeem and save them: this, in the literal sense, respects the redemption and deliverance of the Jews by Cyrus from the Babylonish captivity; which the Lord did, not for any deserts of theirs, but for the sake of his own honour and glory; or, as the Targum, "for my name, and for my word;'' which is repeated here again and again for the confirmation of it, and that it might be more observed.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This was plainly the language of Belshazzar's revels, when he profaned the holy vessels of God's temple at the same time that he praised his idols ( Dan. v. 2, 4 ), and of the Babylonians' demand ( Ps. cxxxvii. 3 ), Sing us one of the songs of Zion. God will therefore deliver his people, because he will not suffer his glory to be thus given to another.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Their captivity was the punishment of their iniquity; and if, when he had them in Babylon, he had left them to pine away and perish there, and made the desolations of their country perpetual, he would only have dealt with them according to their sins, and it was what such a sinful people might expect from an angry God.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1041: “Mercy's Master Motive” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1872)

'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. 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.''Isaiah 48:9-11. THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL in all their generations were full of evil.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לְמַעֲנִ֧י	le.ma.'a.Ni	for own sake my	H4616 →
לְמַעֲנִ֛י	le.ma.'a.Ni	for own sake my	H4616 →
אֶעֱשֶׂ֖ה	'e.'e.Seh	I will act	H6213 →
כִּ֣י	ki	for	H3588 →
אֵ֣יךְ	'eikh	how?	H349 →
יֵחָ֑ל	ye.Chal	will it be profaned	H2490 →
וּכְבוֹדִ֖י	u.khe.vo.Di	and glory my	H3519 →
לְאַחֵ֥ר	le.'a.Cher	to another	H312 →
לֹֽא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
אֶתֵּֽן׃ ס	'e.Ten	I will give	H5414 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 42:8
I am the LORD; that is My name! I will not yield My glory to another or My praise to idols.
leads to
- Isaiah 43:11
  I, yes I, am the LORD, and there is no Savior but Me.
- Exodus 34:14
  For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
- Exodus 20:3–5
  You shall have no other gods before Me.
- Psalms 83:18
  May they know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, are Most High over all the earth.
- Exodus 3:13–15
  Then Moses asked God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is His name?’ What should…
Through
Ezekiel 20:9
But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to…
leads to
- Ezekiel 20:22
  But I withheld My hand and acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Ezekiel 20:22
But I withheld My hand and acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
leads to
- Ezekiel 20:9
  But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ezekiel 20:14
  But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.

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Where the connections lead

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06About Isaiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Isaiah