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.
10 Look, I have refined you,(A) but not as silver;
I have tested[a] you in the furnace of affliction.
11 I will act for my own sake, indeed, my own,(B)
for how can I[b] be defiled?
I will not give my glory to another.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 48:10 DSS; MT reads chosen
  2. 48:11 DSS, Syr; MT reads it

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