Isaiah 48:11
King James VersionSource notes
“For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do for how should be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.”
Context
8Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
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.
10Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
11For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do for how should be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.
12Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I he; I the first, I also the last.
13Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: I call unto them, they stand up together.
14All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm the Chaldeans.